Travel & Geography
This Giddy Globe
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Oliver Herford
Is there a genre called FUN? Yes, and this is it! Insanely humorous geography that will have you rolling on the floor laughing with your sid…
Cairo to Kisumu
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Frank G. Carpenter
Another chapter In Carpenter's continuing tour of the world, this time in Africa covering between Egypt and Kisumu (Kenya), with Interesting…
American Scenery, Vol. 2
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Nathaniel Parker Willis
Although the focus of this book is the engravings depicting scenic sites of 19th century America, each is accompanied by a short description…
Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary
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Arthur Henry Patterson
Published in 1907 by Arthur Henry Patterson, a self-taught local naturalist, Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary was one of his defining books on…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 11
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XI, January to December 1900.
The Future in America: A Search After Realities
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H. G. Wells
A series of travel essays by one of the most well known antiquarian authors focused on America and its persistent social, economic and devel…
North America Vol. 1
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In 1861 he travelled through…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 01. January 1898
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, the January Number.It includes the following articles:Three Weeks in Hubba…
Through Broadland in a Breydon Punt
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Arthur Henry Patterson
Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who, from a very early age, devoted much of his free time to observing, discovering and …
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 05. May 1898
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, May 1898, the Cuba Number.It includes the following articles:Cuba, by Robe…
Mexico
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Frank G. Carpenter
In-depth study of the country of Mexico regarding the cities, rulers, religions, customs and culture. (Summary by Betty B)
Eastern Pilgrims: The Travels of Three Ladies
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Agnes Smith Lewis
"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…
Wonder Stories of Travel
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E. E. Brown, Ernest Ingersoll, David Ker and Eliot McCormick
A curiously interesting collection of folkloric tales and firsthand accounts written by global travelers for 19th century periodicals; compi…
How the "Mastiffs" Went to Iceland
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope recounts his travel with the other passengers of the ship, Mastiff, to Iceland. He describes their journey by ship as well …
With Poor Immigrants to America
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Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in 1913 with a group of poor Russian and other Slavic immigrants to New…
America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer
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Fredrika Bremer
When Fredrika Bremer arrived in New York from Sweden in October 1849, she was already famous throughout America for her novels and for her r…
An Englishwoman in the Philippines
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Enid Dauncey
Enid Gambier Dauncey was a travel writer who, with her businessman husband, lived in a provincial city in the Philippines for nine months fr…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 07. July 1898
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, July 1898, the N.E.A. Number.It includes the following articles:American G…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 - 06. June 1899
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, June 1899.It includes the following articles:National Growth and National C…
Wreck of the "London."
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Unknown
Maritime life in the nineteenth century was as perilous as it was necessary. Whether voyages were military, exploratory or mercantile, or f…