Exploration
Letters from the West
James Hall was a soldier, lawyer, circuit judge, newspaper editor, historian, and author of fiction. He was also the first publisher of a li…
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…
The Great White North
Sketches of those who braved the 'Great White North' in exploration and adventure. - Summary by KevinS
A Woman's Journey Round the World
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated i…
The Romance of Early Exploration
The Author has been encouraged by the reception given to The Romance of Modern Exploration to write a companion volume on the adventures of …
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 Story of the Trapper
Canadian outdoors-woman and popular author Agnes Laut vividly portrays the men who braved the western wildernesses of Canada and U.S. year-a…
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…
"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
La Salle, Discovery of The Great West
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…
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…
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World
Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent), Cook returns to New Zealand via the Friendly Island…
With Sack and Stock in Alaska
In 1888, George Broke with Harold Topham and William Williams, made the first exploration of the Alaskan Mt. St. Elias range, including the …
Mariner of St. Malo
Mariner of St. Malo chronicles the remarkable journey of Jacques Cartier, a sailor turned explorer, who set sail in 1534 under the commissio…
Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation
"The [Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee] shall conduct an independent review of ongoing U.S. human space flight plans a…
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…