Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
The Innocents Abroad
The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's witty and insightful account of his travels through Europe and the Holy Land in 1866. As he embarks on …
Twilight in Italy
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his first impressions of the country he found so fascinat…
From Pole to Pole
This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europ…
A Woman's Journey Round the World
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated i…
The Romance of Piracy
The Library of Romance is a series of books concerning the romance of scientific facts, be it biology, chemistry, history, or politics. This…
Our Old Home
These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …
The British Isles and the Baltic States
Another in a long series by the author focusing on the British Isles and a few chapters on Germany, Poland and other countries of the Baltic…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader
The book tries to give its young readers a living knowledge of Europe. The author conducts tours through various parts of Europe giving a gl…
Mexico
In-depth study of the country of Mexico regarding the cities, rulers, religions, customs and culture. (Summary by Betty B)
Three Men on the Bummel
Our Friends from Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog, are back. In this funny sequel to Three Men in a Boat J., George, and Harri…
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers
An adventurer and explorer of no mean repute, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka leads an expedition by mule train into the forbidding Sierra Mad…
Three Gringos in Venezuela
In the 1890's, three American adventurers in search of warmer weather explore Central and South American cities by steamship and on horsebac…
The National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 1 April 1890.: * On the Telegraphic Determinations of Longitude by the Bureau of Navigation* Re…
The American Far West
Charles Dickens started and edited a magazine called All The Year Round, a weekly collection of articles on a wide variety of topics. An an…
The Ins and Outs of Paris
Paris has been often described, by travelers, by artists, by savants, by friends and by enemies, yet it was after reading most of the works …
White Mountain Trails
"A survey of the White Mountains of New Hampshire from a naturalist's standpoint, useful alike to the tourist, the "tramper" …
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…
Cape Cod
Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and loc…
Chateau and Country Life in France
Mary King Waddington was the American daughter of Charles King, ninth president of Columbia University, and the granddaughter of New York Se…