Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand
“Situated as we were at Camp 2, in fine rata bush, with a luxuriant undergrowth of tree-ferns and other plants - which in England would be c…
Two Years in Oregon
Wallis Nash was a British lawyer who visited Oregon and later emigrated with his family. His account covers a great breadth of description …
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…
Building a State in Apache Land
Building a State in Apache Land by Charles Debrille Poston is a compilation of articles published in 1894 in the Overland Monthly magazine. …
A Gringo In Mañana-Land
Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…
Summer on the Lakes
Margaret Fuller, the American early proponent for Women's rights, writes of her visits to the Great Lakes in the summer of 1843. - Summary b…
Notes of An East Coast Naturalist
Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist with an immeasurable knowledge and perspicacity of the Broadland region’s flora and faun…
Heroines of Travel
Heroines of Travel documents the bravery and fortitude of a number of Victorian-era women who showed that adventure and exciting experiences…
Venetian Life
William Dean Howells was American Consul to Venice for four years. His term ended in 1865. He wrote about the city, and the culture of the V…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol VIII, the December Number.It includes the following articles:A Special Announc…
Diversions in Sicily
Diversions in Sicily offers a captivating exploration of the rich culture and leisure activities found in the rural landscapes of Sicily. Au…
The Caravaners
From the excellent and creative mind of Elizabeth von Arnim comes this humorous travelogue of parts of Great Britain and, if that were not e…
Scenes in Europe
In this little volume, Isaac Taylor takes us on a tour of Europe, anno 1824. We travel once around the entire continent, starting in England…
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier
"It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and un…
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…
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…
Travel
This is the seventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in le…
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…
The Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury
"This account of the Way trodden by the pilgrims of the Middle Ages through the South of England to the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterb…
Our Little Austrian Cousin
In this volume I have endeavored to give my young readers a clearer and a more intimate knowledge than is usually possessed of the vast terr…