Travel & Geography
Wonder Stories of Travel
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E. E. Brown, Ernest Ingersoll, David Ker and Eliot McCormick
A curiously interesting collection of folkloric tales and firsthand accounts written by global travelers for 19th century periodicals; compi…
How the "Mastiffs" Went to Iceland
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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope recounts his travel with the other passengers of the ship, Mastiff, to Iceland. He describes their journey by ship as well …
With Poor Immigrants to America
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Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in 1913 with a group of poor Russian and other Slavic immigrants to New…
America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer
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Fredrika Bremer
When Fredrika Bremer arrived in New York from Sweden in October 1849, she was already famous throughout America for her novels and for her r…
An Englishwoman in the Philippines
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Enid Dauncey
Enid Gambier Dauncey was a travel writer who, with her businessman husband, lived in a provincial city in the Philippines for nine months fr…
Wreck of the "London."
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Unknown
Maritime life in the nineteenth century was as perilous as it was necessary. Whether voyages were military, exploratory or mercantile, or f…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 07. July 1898
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, July 1898, the N.E.A. Number.It includes the following articles:American G…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 - 06. June 1899
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, June 1899.It includes the following articles:National Growth and National C…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 - 05. May 1899
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, May 1899.It includes the following articles:The Redwood Forest of the Pacif…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 11. November 1897
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol VIII, the November Number.It includes the following articles:Patagonia, by J. …
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 11. November 1898
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, November 1898.It includes the following articles:Sumatra's West Coast, by …
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 - 04. April 1899
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, April 1899.It includes the following articles:The Sources of the Saskatchew…
The West Indies and the Spanish Main
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Anthony Trollope
In The West Indies and the Spanish Main, Anthony Trollope recounts his experiences traveling around the area of what is now known as the Car…
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol II
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Charles Lewis Meryon and Lady Hester Stanhope
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversation with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of some…
With Porter in the Essex
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James Otis
The marvelous cruise of the U.S.S. Essex, the United States frigate of thirty-two guns, commanded by Captain David Porter. A story of his f…
A London Mosaic
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Walter Lionel George
An idiosyncratic view of various aspects of London, England, published in 1921. Walter Lionel George (1882 – 1926) was an English writer, c…
Java and the East Indies
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Frank G. Carpenter
Another installment in Carpenter's travels of the world. This time we visit Java, the East Indies, Sumatra, Borneo, The Moluccas, New Guinea…
War Impressions: Being a Record in Colour
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Mortimer Menpes
A personal account of the second Boer War by Australian expatriate artist Mortimer Menpes. Menpes travelled to South Africa as a corresponde…
Things Seen in Spain
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Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
Written in 1912, Hartley’s account of her travels in Spain discusses the fascinating country and its people. She dedicates a section to each…
A pilgrimage to my motherland. An account of a journey among the Egbas and Yoru…
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Robert Campbell
Robert Campbell (1829-84) was a Jamaican-born printer, journalist, and teacher who, along with Martin Robison Delany (1812-85), made up the …