Travel & Geography

The Alps, the Danube and the Near East

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Frank G. Carpenter


Journeying through many countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Switzerland and Greece, the author gives an in-depth account of many …

Tales Of English Minsters: Canterbury Cathedral Kent and Saint Paul's London

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Elizabeth W. Grierson


These simple stories of two of England’s greatest cathedrals were originally written for youth (1910) but adults will also enjoy them. St. …

A Ride Across the Peloponnese

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George Macmillan


In the spring of 1877, a young Oscar Wilde visited Greece with his classics professor, J. P. Mahaffy, and two friends. One of these friends,…

The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Li…

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Frank Thomas Bullen


The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…

North-Pole Voyages

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Zachariah Atwell Mudge


For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…

Carpenter's World Travels: France to Scandinavia

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Frank G. Carpenter


A travelogue through the countries of France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden for young and old alike. Interesting big cities a…

A Guide to the Lakes

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Thomas West


In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and S…

Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit

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Arnold Bennett


Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…

Carpenter's World Travels: From Tangier to Tripoli

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Frank G. Carpenter


Author's account of travels through Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli and the Sahara Desert with stories about the people, climate, industry and cul…

Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water

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Ethel Gwendoline Vincent


Subtitled "The Journal of a Tour through the British Empire and America," this book is a record of the author's travels with her h…

Kamakura

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Yone Noguchi


'Kamakura is nothing if she has no history, writes Japanese novelist, poet, and essayist Yone Noguchi. At the turn of the 20th century, Kama…

The Adventures of a Woman Hobo

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Ethel Grace Lynn


Ethel and Dan Lynn wed in San Francisco in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 earthquake. The young couple soon moved to Chicago where she …

One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends

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Carl Parcher Russell


This recording of the 1931 (1947 second edition) book about Yosemite National Park comprises the narrative text about the Park from its disc…

Canada and Newfoundland

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Frank G. Carpenter


Another entry in Carpenter's series of World Travels focusing on Canada and Newfoundland. (Summary by Betty B)

Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America

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Richard Harding Davis


In the 1890's, three American adventurers in search of warmer weather explore Central and South American cities by steamship and on horsebac…

In the Oregon Country

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George Palmer Putnam


This little book does not undertake to present a comprehensive account of our westernmost States, or even of the Oregon Country. It is inten…

The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 1

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James Cook


In May 1768, the Admiralty commissioned the 39-year old Cook to command a scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the 1…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 04. April 1896

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the April Number. It includes the following articles:* Serilan, by W J McGee and W…

Scottish Reminiscences

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Archibald Geikie


Archibald Geikie was a geologist in Scotland by profession, and a writer. While most of his writings were professional, this is a more perso…

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