Travel

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…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XI, January to December 1900.

The Story of Geographical Discovery

by Joseph Jacobs Read by Steven Seitel 5
This book was first published in 1897. It's a short work, but it encompasses a vast subject—nothing less than determining the detailed geogr…

The Land of Enchantment

by Lilian Whiting Read by Tatiana Chichilla 4.7
Lilian Whiting, renowned journalist and editor, takes the reader on a grand circle tour of the American West. Beginning with Colorado, Ms. W…

Our Old Home

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.4
These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …

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…

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…

A Woman's Journey Round the World

by Ida Laura Pfeiffer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated i…

Florida Trails

by Winthrop Packard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given us such accounts as Wild Pastures, Wood Wanderings, and White Mountain Trails now he takes …

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America

by Alexander Von Humboldt Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.8
In Volume 2 of “The Personal Narrative”, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland continue their travels, beginning at L…

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World

by James Cook Read by David Cole 4.8
Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent), Cook returns to New Zealand via the Friendly Island…

Your United States

by Arnold Bennett Read by David Wales 4.4
Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…

Eastern Pilgrims

by Agnes Smith Lewis Read by Owlivia 4.8
"When two friends and myself resolved, in the summer of 1868, to absent ourselves for a year from home, for the purpose of visiting [th…

Notes of An East Coast Naturalist

by Arthur Henry Patterson Read by TND 5
Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist with an immeasurable knowledge and perspicacity of the Broadland region’s flora and faun…

Stories of California

by Ella M. Sexton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
This is a collection of short sketches about the state of California. They cover everything from historical vignettes to stories of the flo…

Lift-Luck on Southern Roads

by Tickner Edwardes Read by Steve C 4.8
Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southe…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Announcement by the National Geographic SocietyIntr…

A Gringo In Mañana-Land

by Harry La Tourette Foster Read by David Wales 4.5
Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…

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,…

Full Speed Ahead

by Henry Beston Read by David Wales 4.1
“These tales are memories of several months spent as a special correspondent attached to the forces of the American Navy on foreign service……

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