Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
The Carpenter's World Travels
Join a journey through the Holy Land and Syria as it existed in the early 20th century. Visiting and learning of Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Pales…
In Quest of El Dorado
Lively (and often unsparing) descriptions of the people, places, and customs that the author encounters as he attempts to retrace the steps …
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner is a graphic account of WWI submarine warfare. Forstner was the commander of German U-boat U…
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition
Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers tackle the North West Passage in search of the elusive wandering magnetic North Pole. (Summary by St…
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
"Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" is a memoir by Clarence King of his adventures and work with the California Geological Surve…
Tales of a Traveller
Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of peopl…
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp is an autobiography published in 1908 by the Welsh poet and writer W. H. Davies (1871–1940). A large part…
Travel Letters
This collection of Mark Twain travel letters was compiled by Barbara Schmidt for her website, TwainQuotes.com. According to his biographer, …
The Land of Little Rain
The Land of Little Rain is a book of sketches which portray the high desert country of southern California, where the Sierras descend into t…
The Secret of the Sahara
In an age when women were expected to remain at home, entertain, and rear children, Rosita Forbes elected "to boldly go where no one ha…
The Art of Travel
The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from…
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay offers a firsthand account of the early days of European settlement in Australia, as seen throug…
The Gentle Art of Tramping
Stephen Graham tramped extensively around pre-revolutionary Russia, and with immigrants as they landed on the East coast of America and spre…
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of th…
Travels in West Africa
Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Afric…
Loafing Along Death Valley Trails
William Caruthers was a retired newspaperman who spent 25 years listening to stories told by the inhabitants of Death Valley. This 1951 book…
Over The Rocky Mountains To Alaska
This 1899 travelogue is by one of the era’s most popular travel writers. A peek in how travel used to be. - Summary by David Wales
Eighty Years Ashore and Afloat
Experiences of Jethro Ripley, mainly in the Atlantic coast trade, but including an account of a whaling voyage around Cape Horn. The narrati…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader
Through travelogues, lifestyle descriptions and cultural notes the reader will visit China, Japan, India, Korea, parts of the Holy Land and …
The Track of the Typhoon
In 1920, William Nutting, editor of Motor Boat Magazine and an experienced sailor, commissioned his friend, legendary naval architect Willia…