Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
Travel Letters
This collection of Mark Twain travel letters was compiled by Barbara Schmidt for her website, TwainQuotes.com. According to his biographer, …
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles invites listeners to explore the haunting beauty and stark realities of the Galápagos Islands throu…
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…
Carpenter's World Travels
Author's account of travels through Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli and the Sahara Desert with stories about the people, climate, industry and cul…
The First Voyage of James Cook
Following his discovery and circumnavigation of New Zealand recorded in Volume 1, Cook sailed westwards to Australia, whose east coast was a…
Thrilling Stories of the Ocean
Authentic accounts of modern voyagers and travelers; designed for the entertainment and instruction of young people. - Summary by Marmaduke …
Gleanings in Buddha Fields
Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known fo…
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 …
California Desert Trails
"I fell an easy prey to the beckonings of the other principal feature of California's topography, the dreamy, dreary desert. Long ago, …
The Assault on Mount Everest
Personal narratives of climbing Mount Everest in 1922-1923. The expeditions did not reach the summit. The northern approach to the mountain…
Scilly and its Legends
A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief divers…
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…
Europe Revised
Irwin Cobb's humorous Europe Revised is a travelogue and comedy almost in the style of Mark Twain. The dedication says it best, "To My …
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…
The Amateur Emigrant
In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left Scotland to meet his future wife in her native California. Leaving by ship from Glasgow, Scotland,…
Voyage Round the World
George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty …
Lands of the Andes and the Desert
Another volume in Carpenter's lengthy series of his travels around the world in the early 20th century.This volume covers specific countries…
Through Glacier Park
This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights arou…
Sea and Sardinia
A travel book describing a journey taken by Lawrence and his wife Frieda (whom he refers to as the Queen Bee) by sea from Sicily to Sardinia…
Six Months In Mexico
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…