Exploration
By Desert Ways to Baghdad
Every age witnesses the birth of some great soul. Sometimes events bring these people to the attention of the world. More often than not, th…
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…
The Third Voyage of James Cook
Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…
The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was, arguably, the first person to explore North and South America from Cape Hatteras to Uruguay or Argentina, 35° nort…
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…
From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea
A record of a voyage of discovery and adventure, beginning in Siberia and continuing to Northern China in the late 19th Century. - Summary b…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader
The purpose of this book is to give to its readers a living knowledge of some of the wonders of the country and continent in which they live…
A Gringo In Mañana-Land
Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…
Pathfinders of the Great Plains
Pathfinders of the Great Plains chronicles the daring expedition of the La Verendrye brothers as they embark on a quest to discover an overl…
Abandoned
Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a …
Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition
In 1860, Robert O'Hara Burke and his team embarked on a bold expedition to traverse the Australian continent from south to north, aiming to …
The Mystery of Easter Island
To this day, Easter Island, with its magnificent stone structures, remains an enigma. Katherine Routledge was part of an exhaustive archaeol…
Across the Andes
“The legion that never was listed,”The soft-lilting rhythm and song,The starlight, and shadowy tropics,The palms—and all that belong;The unk…
Titan Of Chasms
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…
North-Pole Voyages
For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…
narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
From 1848 - 1852, Alfred Russell Wallace travelled in Brazil, exploring the Amazon and Rio Negro rivers and tributaries. During these travel…
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…
The Romance of Modern Invention
This is a volume of exploration into the newest inventions of the turn of the previous century. Journalist Archibald Williams walks the read…
Travel Stories Retold
St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-w…
Farthest North
Covers the life of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood with emphasis on his attempt to reach "Farthest North" as part of the Greely Ex…