Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
In the Heart of Africa
A wonderfully readable condensation of two of Baker's earlier, longer works recounting his self-sponsored expeditions into the Dark Continen…
The Sea and the Jungle
Considered one of the greatest travel narratives, The Sea and the Jungle is H.M. Tomlinson's firsthand account of the first journey of an En…
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition
Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to ma…
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…
Scrambles Amongst the Alps
Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1…
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
Ida Pfeiffer travelled alone in an era when women didn't travel. She went first on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, then went on to Egypt and …
Man-of-War Life
In 1844, Charles Nordhoff joined the U.S. Navy at the young age of 14. He describes his around-the-world adventure as a young sailor aboard …
Sir Francis Drake
In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596)…
Anything Once
An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some ap…
American Notes
Charles Dickens records his impressions of America during his 1842 journey. - Summary by Brad "Hamlet" Filippone
The Cruise of the Snark
The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of "surf…
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…
The Adventures of a Woman Hobo
Ethel and Dan Lynn wed in San Francisco in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 earthquake. The young couple soon moved to Chicago where she …
Vagabonding Down The Andes
Sometime in the latter half of 1911, Harry A. Franck jumped out of a box-car and crossed the Rio Grande, from Laredo. Thus began a journey, …
Letters from Hawaii
By the time Mark Twain worked as a roving reporter for the Sacramento Union, he had held positions with other newspapers in Nevada and Calif…
Westward Hoboes
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Dixo…
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his first impressions of the country he found so fascinat…
The South Pole
In contrast to Scott's South Pole expedition, Amundsen's expedition benefited from good equipment, appropriate clothing, and a fundamentally…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader
Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over 100 years ago. Covering the continent by steamer and train and other mo…
Peaks of Shala
This book was published in 1923. From the author's own Introduction: "I would not have this book considered too seriously. It is not an…