Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
Things Seen in Venice
Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art…
A Guide to the Lakes
In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and S…
Man and Nature on the Broads
From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations, the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk have evolved into a natural ecosy…
An Inland Voyage
As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first publi…
History of a Six Weeks' Tour
Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Rou…
The Story of Geographical Discovery
From the time of the Ancients to expeditions to the North Pole, Jacobs tells the adventure story of the discovery of the different lands and…
On the Trail of Don Quixote
On the Trail of Don Quixote is an engaging 1890’s “record of rambles in the Ancient Province of La Mancha” by two artist friends, French aut…
Travel Collection
A collection of short, non-fiction travel memoirs or guides written in, or translated into, English. Material covered might be a museum, a v…
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah
In Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah, Sir Richard Francis Burton recounts his remarkable journey to the heart of t…
An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland
In the summer of 1773, lawyer and antiquarian William Hutchinson set out from his home in County Durham on a tour of the English Lake Distri…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the February Number. It includes the following articles:* Venezuela: Her Governmen…
Foreign Lands
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson.This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 4, 2021.…
Greatest Wonders of the World
A selection of descriptions of famous, and not so famous, natural beauty spots, as described by various travelers of the age. Travelers incl…
Im Herzen von Afrika
Schweinfurth trat 1868 im Auftrag der Humboldt-Stiftung in Berlin eine große Reise nach Afrika an. 1869 reiste er von Khartum aus nila…
Australian Miscellany
A collection in celebration of 2012 Year of Reading Australia. Readers chose fiction, non fiction and poetry - we only asked that the readin…
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…
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…
London Impressions
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
The Cruise of the Walrus on the Broads
"This is an account of my latest sailing adventures on board a clumsy small sea-boat, on the pleasant waterways of Broadland.I acquired…
Our Little Irish Cousin
This little book is intended to help American children (and adults) learn more about the children of Ireland, their culture and how they liv…