Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
Adlestrop
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of Adlestrop by Edward Thomas. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 20th, 2009.
Glimpses of Italian society
Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Ly…
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, k…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the Introductory by the editor, John Hyde, and the…
Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day
Knowing the Egyptian as I know him, I cannot but think that he is greatly misunderstood, even by those who are sincerely anxious to befriend…
Letters From America
"[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at…
Songs of Travel and Other Verses
A collection of short verses by the Scottish poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson reflecting his great love of travel and adventure from…
California
Henry Vizetelly, writing under the pseudonym J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, recalls an expedition to California he took between 1847-1848 . Originally,…
Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome
This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59,…
The Lusiads
The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tal…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the following articles: The Gold Coast, Ashanti, a…
Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland
Norie's series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a staple in the chart-room of 19th century British (and other) merchant v…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the August Number. It includes the following articles:* The Work of the National G…
Ten Days in the Light of Acca
This work is the story of a pilgrimage made over a hundred years ago by a group of American pilgrims. They were not headed for Canterbury, R…
Ceres’ Runaway
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
Through Broadland in a Breydon Punt
Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who, from a very early age, devoted much of his free time to observing, discovering and …
Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress
This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…
This Giddy Globe
This Giddy Globe invites listeners on a whimsical journey through the world of geography, infused with Oliver Herford's signature humor. Wit…
Among Cannibals
From 1880-1883, the author undertook an academic expedition to Australia, with the purpose of recording zoological phenomena. While there, h…
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia
"If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from her carriage as she tours Bendigo think again. In 1852,…