Travel

Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the An…

by Francis Bond Head Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses i…

Southern Arabia

by Theodore Bent Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Southern Arabia recounts a threatening four-month journey into North Eastern Ethiopia by the Bents. These brave travelers were the first to …

Father Thames

by Walter Higgins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Originally published in 1922, this work details the history and importance of one of Great Britain's grandest rivers, the River Thames. It i…

In The Footprints Of The Padres

by Charles Warren Stoddard Read by David Wales 4
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…

Porto Rico

by Joseph B. Seabury Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. This volume was written in 1903 as Book XII in the…

A Journal from Japan

by Marie Stopes Read by Expatriate 4.4
Marie Stopes was a highly controversial scientist and activist in her era, campaigning for radical new views of love-based marriage, birth c…

Young Americans Abroad

by John Overton Choules Read by Sibella Denton 5
It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with th…

With Swag and Billy

by Henry J. Tompkins Read by Phil Benson 4.8
A guide to hikes around Sydney, Australia, from the early years of the twentieth century. In 1895, Henry J. Tompkins and William Mogford Ham…

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

by Mary Wollstonecraft Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Published in 1796, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-…

Around the World with the Children

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.8
An introduction to world geography for young and old alike. Topics such as China, Japan, the American Indian, Europe and the oceans on a beg…

A pilgrimage to my motherland

by Robert Campbell Read by Faith Abiola-Ellison 5
Robert Campbell (1829-84) was a Jamaican-born printer, journalist, and teacher who, along with Martin Robison Delany (1812-85), made up the …

The West Indies and the Spanish Main

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
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…

Foreign Lands

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson.This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 4, 2021.…

A Ride Across the Peloponnese

by George Macmillan Read by Rob Marland 4.8
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 National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the February Number. It includes the following articles: Crater Lake, Oregon, by J…

A London Mosaic

by Walter Lionel George Read by David Wales
An idiosyncratic view of various aspects of London, England, published in 1921. Walter Lionel George (1882 – 1926) was an English writer, c…

On the Trail of Don Quixote

by August F. Jaccaci Read by Sue Anderson 4.5
On the Trail of Don Quixote is an engaging 1890’s “record of rambles in the Ancient Province of La Mancha” by two artist friends, French aut…

North-Pole Voyages

by Zachariah Atwell Mudge Read by Kristine Bekere 3.6
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…

Travels in New Zealand

by Ernst Dieffenbach Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.3
“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…

North America

by Anthony Trollope Read by Celine Major 4.3
Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In 1861 he travelled through…

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