Exploration
Pathfinders of the Great Plains
Pathfinders of the Great Plains chronicles the daring expedition of the La Verendrye brothers as they embark on a quest to discover an overl…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, the March Number.It includes the following articles:Dwellings of the Saga-…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader
The purpose of this book is to give to its readers a living knowledge of some of the wonders of the country and continent in which they live…
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…
Abandoned
Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a …
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XII, January 1901.It includes the following articles:The Influence Of Submarin…
National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XII, March 1901.It includes the following articles:Abyssinia - The Country And…
Maw's Vacation
Times has changed! Maw has only known hard work her whole life. She’s been married to Paw for 40 years, helping raise crops, raising childre…
Little Masterpieces of Science
"The love of adventure, the expectation of the unexpected, have ever prompted men stout of heart, and ready of resource, to brave the p…
Titan Of Chasms
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…
Across the Andes
“The legion that never was listed,”The soft-lilting rhythm and song,The starlight, and shadowy tropics,The palms—and all that belong;The unk…
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China
The Work now given to the Public is the result of a series of recent excursions into the interior of the Colony of New South Wales, at inter…
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…
Prince Henry the Navigator
Prince Henry was a significant explorer and adventurer in a period of enlightenment and expansion of European trade and knowledge of the wor…
Travel Stories Retold
St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-w…
Mariner of St. Malo
Mariner of St. Malo chronicles the remarkable journey of Jacques Cartier, a sailor turned explorer, who set sail in 1534 under the commissio…
Farthest North
Covers the life of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood with emphasis on his attempt to reach "Farthest North" as part of the Greely Ex…
The Voyagers
In this 1926 Newbery Honor Book, Pádraic Colum gathers several little-known folk lore tales of exploration on the Atlantic Ocean and …
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition
The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition was the famous survey that took place in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida (…
Invention And Discovery
"In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives an…