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The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 2

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National Geographic Society


National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Africa, its Past and FutureReports on:Geography of …

Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora

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George Hamilton


George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty …

Dog-Watches At Sea

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Stanton Henry King


Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reaso…

Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 2

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Thomas Stevens


Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Franc…

The White Heart of Mojave

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Edna Brush Perkins


"The White Heart of the Mojave" recounts a 1920's adventure "in the wind and sun and big spaces" of Death Valley by two …

American Notes

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Rudyard Kipling


In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-India…

La Rana Viajera

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Julio Camba


Julio Camba Andreu (1884 - 1962) fue un escritor y periodista español. Nació en una familia gallega de clase media. A los trec…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 3

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National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 3 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:The Rivers and Valleys of PennsylvaniaTopographic M…

The Prairie Traveler

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Randolph B. Marcy


Commissioned by the US War Department and written in 1859 by a decorated US Army captain, The Prairie Traveler is a complete how-to travel g…

The Spell of Egypt

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Robert Smythe Hichens


The author, a British journalist and novelist, is interested in the feel of the places he visits. He describes at length a visit he has made…

Los viajes de Marco Polo veneciano o El libro de las maravillas

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Rustichello Da Pisa


"Los viajes de Marco Polo veneciano" publicado en 1298, contiene las primeras referencias escritas que un europeo registró …

Through Glacier Park, Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights arou…

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

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Mary Wollstonecraft


Published in 1796, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-…

East by West, Vol. 1

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Sir Henry W. Lucy


East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during …

The Land of Little Rain

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Mary Hunter Austin


The Land of Little Rain is a book of sketches which portray the high desert country of southern California, where the Sierras descend into t…

The Stones of Venice, Volume 2

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John Ruskin


The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …

Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69

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Edward Whymper


Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1…

American Notes for General Circulation

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Charles Dickens


American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. Wh…

Letters from Egypt

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Lucie Duff-Gordon


As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters …

Our Journey to Sinai

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Agnes Von Blomberg Bensly


Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Ju…

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