Travel Fiction
Meridiana
Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes th…
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant w…
The Confidence-Man
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on Ap…
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book fa…
A Soldier Of The Legion
An educated gentleman, Mr Manington has given an insight into the unusual experiences of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion, such as…
Dave Dashaway and His Giant Airship
How the Giant Airship was constructed and how the daring young aviator and his friends made the hazardous journey through the clouds from th…
The Boy Travellers in Mexico
An engaging travelogue published in 1890, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. From the preface: "a bo…
The Voyage Out
Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voy…
The Cliff Climbers
A plant hunter, Karl Linden, and his brother Caspar are on their way to the Himalayas to collect the plants of that region. Many adventures…
A Cathedral Courtship
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases…
The Secret City
Written in the first person, The Secret City is a novel in three parts of a journey through post World War I Russia and the Revolution, duri…
The Scalp Hunters
"Unroll the world’s map, and look upon the great northern continent of America. Away to the wild west, away toward the setting sun, awa…
Bunce, the Bobby and the Broads
Imagining a holiday postcard message penned by the author …My Dear Listeners Ended up having a great 10 days up here on the Norfolk Broad…
Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand
A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother and sister. He wants to be a clergyman and a farmer when he arrives there. This story…
The Emancipated
In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in the oppressive social order of the Victorian era. A group of British expat…
Juju
A 1919 pulp-press tale of deepest darkest Africa. - Summary by david wales
Poison Island
Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary bec…
The Road To Mandalay
Sophy Leigh and Douglas Shafto come to Burma on the same ship in 1912. They come for different reasons. Through them, we learn about British…
The Ghost Camp
Englishman Valentine Blount is traveling in Australia, looking for his fortune. He meets up with John Carter, a bushman known locally as Lit…
The Gorilla Hunters
Ralph Rover is happily at home from his adventure on The Coral Island and wondering if he should settle down when he receives a visit from a…