Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
The Story of Geographical Discovery
From the time of the Ancients to expeditions to the North Pole, Jacobs tells the adventure story of the discovery of the different lands and…
Short Nonfiction Collection
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…
Two Years in Oregon
Wallis Nash was a British lawyer who visited Oregon and later emigrated with his family. His account covers a great breadth of description …
Travels in Lancashire
A collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on travels in Lancashire, England, with occasional sorties into adjacent counties. - Summary…
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World
Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent), Cook returns to New Zealand via the Friendly Island…
Greatest Wonders of the World
A selection of descriptions of famous, and not so famous, natural beauty spots, as described by various travelers of the age. Travelers incl…
The Boy Travellers in Mexico
An engaging travelogue published in 1890, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. From the preface: "a bo…
The British Isles and the Baltic States
Another in a long series by the author focusing on the British Isles and a few chapters on Germany, Poland and other countries of the Baltic…
Building a State in Apache Land
Building a State in Apache Land by Charles Debrille Poston is a compilation of articles published in 1894 in the Overland Monthly magazine. …
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon captures the essence of an 18th-century sea journey, as renowned author Henry Fielding embarks on a sailing ad…
Cycling in the Alps
A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, April 1899.It includes the following articles:The Sources of the Saskatchew…
The Land of Enchantment
Lilian Whiting, renowned journalist and editor, takes the reader on a grand circle tour of the American West. Beginning with Colorado, Ms. W…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XI, January to December 1900.
Things Seen in Venice
Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, April 1898, the Klondike Number.It includes the following articles:The Nor…
The Cruise of the Walrus on the Broads
"This is an account of my latest sailing adventures on board a clumsy small sea-boat, on the pleasant waterways of Broadland.I acquired…
Summer on the Lakes
Margaret Fuller, the American early proponent for Women's rights, writes of her visits to the Great Lakes in the summer of 1843. - Summary b…
Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand
“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…
Specimen Days
Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…