Travel
The Art of Travel
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Sir Francis Galton
The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from…
How I Found Livingstone
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Henry Morton Stanley
Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying "Dr Livingstone, i Presume?". Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United…
The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Few stories of shipwreck and survival can equal that of the 16th century Spaniard Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca who, cast ashore …
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1
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John Lloyd Stephens
The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…
A Thousand Miles up the Nile
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Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in …
The Journey of Coronado
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Pedro De Castañeda
In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …
A Woman Who Went to Alaska
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May Kellogg Sullivan
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have…
The Lure of the Labrador Wild
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Dillon Wallace
The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi Ri…
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
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Samuel Johnson
In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the H…
The Englishwoman in America
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Isabella L. Bird
Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…
Old Times on the Mississippi
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Mark Twain
Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlan…
Canyons of the Colorado
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John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colora…
The Stones of Venice, Volume 1
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John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2
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John Lloyd Stephens
The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…
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…
The Europeans
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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…
Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 2
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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…
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
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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
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Laurence Sterne
After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it …