Travel

A Journey Round My Room

by Xavier De Maistre Read by Steven Watson 4.9
Sentenced to house arrest for forty-two days owing to his participation in a duel, Xavier de Maistre was inspired to write a travel memoir a…

The American Far West

by Various Read by David Wales 4.6
Charles Dickens started and edited a magazine called All The Year Round, a weekly collection of articles on a wide variety of topics. An an…

The Wild North Land

by William Francis Butler Read by Steven Seitel 4.3
This book was published in 1910.Not only do Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun, but it seems that sometimes they venture into…

Travel Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
A collection of short, non-fiction travel memoirs or guides written in, or translated into, English. Material covered might be a museum, a v…

Lands of the Caribbean

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB
The author ventures to the islands of the Caribbean for yet another volume in his travel series. This time we visit the countries of Panama,…

The Pilgrimage Of Etheria

by Etheria Read by David Wales 4.5
This (probably) late fourth century common era (A.D.) narrative of a Christian pilgrimage is the earliest such text which survives to us. It…

Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

by Austen Layard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…

Vacations

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
This is the 34th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Idle Days in Patagonia

by William Henry Hudson Read by Kevin W. Davidson 4.9
Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon arrival accidentally shot himself in the knee, requiring a lengthy period …

Unknown London

by Walter George Bell Read by Janet 4.8
Unknown London invites listeners to uncover the hidden facets of one of the world's most iconic cities. Walter George Bell delves into the l…

Carpenter's World Travels

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.2
Early twentieth century travel book about Alaska with stories of major cities, Indian tribes, customs and geography of what would become ou…

Audubon's Western Journal

by John Woodhouse Audubon Read by David Wales 4.5
John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862), son of the famous painter John James Audubon and an artist in his own right, joined Col. Henry Webb's Ca…

Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedivé

by Foster Barham Zincke Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Those particulars of the History of Egypt, and of its present condition, in which it differs from other countries, are factors of the idea t…

Around the World with the Children

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.8
An introduction to world geography for young and old alike. Topics such as China, Japan, the American Indian, Europe and the oceans on a beg…

Eothen, or Impressions of Travel

by Alexander William Kinglake Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A classic of Victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey through the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his residence there in…

Mountain Adventures

by John Timbs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-lif…

Idylls Of The Sea

by Frank Thomas Bullen Read by David Wales 4.2
In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquainta…

First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier

by Hazard Stevens Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin, made the first documented successful ascent of Mt. Rainier on August …

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various and Plato Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…

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