Exploration
Abandoned
Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a …
Syria: the Desert and the Sown
Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…
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 …
Tales From The Seven Seas
Tales from the Seven Seas is a captivating South African radio show that aired from 1974 to 1979. This collection takes listeners on thrilli…
The Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels…
The Book of Buried Treasure
Described by the author as: BEING A TRUE HISTORY OF THE GOLD, JEWELS, AND PLATE OF PIRATES, GALLEONS, ETC., WHICH ARE SOUGHT FOR TO THIS DAY…
Horizons West
Horizons West is a captivating radio docu-drama that explores the historic Lewis and Clark expedition. This engaging program brings to life …
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…
Lands of the Andes and the Desert
Another volume in Carpenter's lengthy series of his travels around the world in the early 20th century.This volume covers specific countries…
Travels in New Zealand
“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, o…
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…
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…
Shores of the Polar Sea
"THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION of 1875 left England on 29th May, crossed the Atlantic to Davis Straits in a succession of storms, and entered t…
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…
True Tales of Arctic Heroism
The Arctic has always been a fascinating area for us. This is true today just as much as in Adolphus Greely's time. In 1912, Greely publishe…
The Last Secrets
The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two dec…
Short Nonfiction Collection
"Fine experience lies at one's own doorstep" writes Raymond S. Spears, suggesting that boating on the Mississippi River offers &qu…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, July 1899.It includes the following articles:Physiography of the Nicaragua …
Lapérouse
Biography of the eighteenth century French navigator Lapérouse. - Summary by Barbara Baker
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…