Travel
A Traveller in War-Time
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Winston Churchill
This is a collection of a series of journalistic articles written during his travels throughout WWI era Europe that Churchill -- the America…
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 2
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…
The Europeans
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Henry James
The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitud…
The Tosa Diary
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No Tsurayuki Ki
Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collec…
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summa…
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Read by Martin Geeson
Laurence Sterne
After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it …
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Read by Patrick Wallace
Robert Louis Stevenson
A classic of travel writing, this book recounts Stevenson's adventures on an extended walk through uplands and mountains in south-western Fr…
A Year Amongst the Persians
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Edward Granville Browne
Edward Granville Browne, born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and …
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1
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Thomas Stevens
Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Franc…
The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines
Read by William Tomcho
Isabel Anderson
Isabel Anderson has written a most interesting travelogue of Hawaii and The Philippines. Actually it is more of a history lesson. Anyone wit…
Travels in West Africa
Read by Nathalie J.
Mary H. Kingsley
Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Afric…
Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel
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Various
This is the seventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in le…
Letters of Travel
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Rudyard Kipling
Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stor…
Domestic Manners of the Americans
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Frances Milton Trollope
Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least noto…
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah
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Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hyp…
Pictures from Italy
Read by Anthony Ogus
Charles Dickens
Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…
The Romance of Missionary Heroism
Read by David Leeson
John C Lambert
The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …
A Hero of Our Time
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will…
On a Chinese Screen
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W. Somerset Maugham
This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Diary of a Pilgrimage
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Jerome K. Jerome
A possibly fictionalised account by the comic novelist Jerome K. Jerome of a trip to Germany that he undertook with a friend in order to see…