Travel & Geography

Diversions in Sicily

Read by R. S. Steinberg


Henry Festing Jones


Samuel Butler's biographer dedicates his urbane account of the culture and entertainments of rural Sicily to the unborn son of his guide to …

Three Days On The Ohio River

Read by David Wales


William A Alcott and William A. Alcott


This 1854 narration of a trip upon the Ohio River in a steamboat from Cincinnati to Pittsburg gives a picture of travel in a different time…

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the…

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt and Alexander Von Humboldt


Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland …

The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543

Read by Phil Benson


John Leland


John Leland's 'Itinerary' was the product of several journeys around England and Wales undertaken between 1538 and 1543. The manuscript is m…

The Turkish Embassy Letters (selection)

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu


Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont) was an English aristocrat and woman of letters. In 1716, she accompanied her husband to Vi…

In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers

Read by Steven Seitel


Frederick Schwatka


An adventurer and explorer of no mean repute, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka leads an expedition by mule train into the forbidding Sierra Mad…

Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, an…

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Ernst Dieffenbach


“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…

Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

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W. H. Davenport Adams


The nineteenth century saw the expansion in popularity of travel among the wealthy. Add to this the independence more women were enjoying as…

The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators

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Hendrik Van Loon


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…

The Ins and Outs of Paris or Paris by Day and Night

Read by Celine Major


Julie de Marguerittes


Paris has been often described, by travelers, by artists, by savants, by friends and by enemies, yet it was after reading most of the works …

A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland

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Samuel Johnson


Samuel Johnson’s wit and tongue-in-cheek expressions make this record of the economy, education and politicks [sic] of remote settlements an…

The World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and…

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Eva March Tappan


This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March…

In the Heart of Africa

Read by Steven Seitel


Samuel White Baker


A wonderfully readable condensation of two of Baker's earlier, longer works recounting his self-sponsored expeditions into the Dark Continen…

History of a Six Weeks' Tour

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Rou…

Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe van de Oost-Indische reyse

Read by Anna Simon


Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe


Het "Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe" is een scheepsjournaal opgetekend door de Hoornse schipper Willem Ysbrantsz Bon…

Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789

Read by Pamela Nagami


Arthur Young


Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst o…

Scilly and its Legends

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Henry John Whitfield


A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief divers…

Young Americans Abroad

Read by Sibella Denton


John Overton Choules


It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with th…

China and the Chinese

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Edmund Plauchut


Edmund Plauchut spent many years in China and gives an account of his observations of the places, people, and culture as he experienced them…

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