Exploration
Syria: the Desert and the Sown
Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…
Hunting In Many Lands
The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, entitled "American Big Game Hunting," confined itself to sport on the A…
The Cruise of the Corwin
"The Cruise of the Corwin is John Muir's account of a voyage he took in 1881 on the steamer Thomas Corwin, which set sail from San Fran…
The Track of the Typhoon
In 1920, William Nutting, editor of Motor Boat Magazine and an experienced sailor, commissioned his friend, legendary naval architect Willia…
The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators
This is a story of magnificent failures. The men who equipped the expeditions of which I shall tell you the story died in the poorhouse. The…
The Book of Buried Treasure
Described by the author as: BEING A TRUE HISTORY OF THE GOLD, JEWELS, AND PLATE OF PIRATES, GALLEONS, ETC., WHICH ARE SOUGHT FOR TO THIS DAY…
The Life of Columbus
A factual account of the life of Christopher Columbus, from his early years, through discoveries in the New World, to his death in 1506. - S…
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…
From Pole to Pole
This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europ…
Travels in New Zealand
“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, o…
With Carson and Fremont
This is another book in the Trail Blazer Series. Being the adventures, in the years 1842–’43–’44, on trail over mountains and through desert…
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers
An adventurer and explorer of no mean repute, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka leads an expedition by mule train into the forbidding Sierra Mad…
Gold Hunting in Alaska
In 1898, naturalist, Joseph Grinnell joins a company of twenty men bound for Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, from California aboard the schooner Pen…
Southern Arabia
Southern Arabia recounts a threatening four-month journey into North Eastern Ethiopia by the Bents. These brave travelers were the first to …
My Friends the Savages
The author writes his experiences with the Sakai peoples in the Malay peninsula (SE Asia), focusing on their lifestyle and customs. What imp…
The Wild North Land
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…
True Tales of Arctic Heroism
The Arctic has always been a fascinating area for us. This is true today just as much as in Adolphus Greely's time. In 1912, Greely publishe…
Celebrated Travels and Travellers
Celebrated Travels and Travellers by Jules Verne invites listeners on an enlightening journey through the age of exploration in the 19th cen…
The Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels…
The Cariboo Trail
Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first di…