Travel

Things Seen in Spain

by Catherine Gasquoine Hartley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Written in 1912, Hartley’s account of her travels in Spain discusses the fascinating country and its people. She dedicates a section to each…

Northern Trails

by William J. Long Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The reader who follows these trails will find them leading into a new country, a land of space and silence where it is good to be, away up a…

The Ins and Outs of Paris

by Julie de Marguerittes Read by Celine Major
Paris has been often described, by travelers, by artists, by savants, by friends and by enemies, yet it was after reading most of the works …

Scottish Reminiscences

by Archibald Geikie Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Archibald Geikie was a geologist in Scotland by profession, and a writer. While most of his writings were professional, this is a more perso…

Chateau and Country Life in France

by Mary King Waddington Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Mary King Waddington was the American daughter of Charles King, ninth president of Columbia University, and the granddaughter of New York Se…

Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water

by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
Subtitled "The Journal of a Tour through the British Empire and America," this book is a record of the author's travels with her h…

Venetian Life

by William Dean Howells Read by Timothy Ferguson
William Dean Howells was American Consul to Venice for four years. His term ended in 1865. He wrote about the city, and the culture of the V…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 3:The Arctic Cruise of the U.S.S. Thetis in the Summer and Autumn of 1889.The Law of Storms, co…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. President Theodore Roosevelt, in a 1903 speech, declared that "The future welfare …

Cycling in the Alps

by C. L. Freeston Read by Phil Benson 4.8
A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…

Six Months In Mexico

by Nellie Bly Read by James K. White 4.5
This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitte…

Japan and Korea

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.6
Another fascinating volume in the author’s quest to travel the world. This time we are taken to Japan and Korea for an in-depth look at thei…

Young Folks' Treasury

by Hamilton Wright Mabie Read by BettyB 5
Historical vignettes of selected locations throughout the world and many of our early explorers as well. Fascinating travel adventures throu…

With Poor Immigrants to America

by Stephen Graham Read by Ted Lienhart 5
Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in 1913 with a group of poor Russian and other Slavic immigrants to New…

How to Camp Out

by John Mead Gould Read by Sarah Jennings 4.1
Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern reader…

American Notes for General Circulation

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. Wh…

Carpenter's World Travels

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.7
Author's account of travels through Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli and the Sahara Desert with stories about the people, climate, industry and cul…

The Romany Rye

by George Borrow Read by Peter Dann 5
"The Romany Rye" is a direct continuation of George Borrow's "Lavengro", taking up the latter's story immediately where …

Traveling Sketches

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
In this small book, Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit and satire the different types of travelers commonly encountered …

Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand

by Arthur Paul Harper Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.7
“Situated as we were at Camp 2, in fine rata bush, with a luxuriant undergrowth of tree-ferns and other plants - which in England would be c…

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