Exploration
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…
Little Masterpieces of Science
"The love of adventure, the expectation of the unexpected, have ever prompted men stout of heart, and ready of resource, to brave the p…
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…
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…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XII, January 1901.It includes the following articles:The Influence Of Submarin…
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China
The Work now given to the Public is the result of a series of recent excursions into the interior of the Colony of New South Wales, at inter…
Short Nonfiction Collection
"Fine experience lies at one's own doorstep" writes Raymond S. Spears, suggesting that boating on the Mississippi River offers &qu…
Through Timbuctu and Across the Great Sahara
Through Timbuctu and across the great Sahara: an account of an adventurous journey of exploration from Sierra Leone to the source of the Nig…
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…
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…
The American Trail
"The American Trail" is a historically accurate serial-drama that chronicles American history, including the Lewis & Clarke Ex…
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…
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…
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…
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition
The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition was the famous survey that took place in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida (…
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…
The Discovery of New Zealand
Fair Winds To The South Seas Discovery of NZ by Brian Millard. On the thirteenth of December 1642, sailors aboard two small ships belonging …
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, April 1898, the Klondike Number.It includes the following articles:The Nor…
The Voyagers
In this 1926 Newbery Honor Book, Pádraic Colum gathers several little-known folk lore tales of exploration on the Atlantic Ocean and …
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…