Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
Eothen, or Impressions of Travel
A classic of Victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey through the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his residence there in…
Songs of Sea and Sail
Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boat…
Around the World with the Children
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…
White Mountain Trails
"A survey of the White Mountains of New Hampshire from a naturalist's standpoint, useful alike to the tourist, the "tramper" …
Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedivé
Those particulars of the History of Egypt, and of its present condition, in which it differs from other countries, are factors of the idea t…
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon captures the essence of an 18th-century sea journey, as renowned author Henry Fielding embarks on a sailing ad…
Idylls Of The Sea
In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquainta…
Our Little Korean Cousin
This book is one of a series that aims at describing other cultures to children in an entertaining way that honors the culture, educates the…
Cycling in the Alps
A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…
Prowling About Panama
In 1903, Panama became a brand new state in Central America by seceding from Colombia in order to facilitate the construction of the Panama …
History of the Kingdom of Siam
Turpin's History of Siam, published at Paris in the year 1771 consists of two volumes, the first of which deals merely with the natural Hist…
Kamakura
'Kamakura is nothing if she has no history, writes Japanese novelist, poet, and essayist Yone Noguchi. At the turn of the 20th century, Kama…
Zone Policeman 88
Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer. After publishing Vagabond Journey Around the World, he spent 3 months in the Canal Zone of Pa…
The Land of Enchantment
Lilian Whiting, renowned journalist and editor, takes the reader on a grand circle tour of the American West. Beginning with Colorado, Ms. W…
Specimen Days
Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…
A Ride Across the Peloponnese
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,…
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara
This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the n…
Wild and romantic
A collection of some of the most significant literary work on the English Lake District prior to Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). …
Our New Zealand Cousins
A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had …
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland …