A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro,: with an account of the native tribes, and observations on the climate, geology, and natural history of the Amazon valley

The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Henry Walter Bates

The work is a nineteenth‑century natural history travelogue by Henry Walter Bates, a veteran of an 1848–1859…

Travels on the Amazon

Alfred Russel Wallace

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

T. Smollett

The work is an epistolary comedy that opens with a series of letters written by a nameless narrator to…

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” is a first‑hand travel memoir that plunges the reader into the gritty…

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

James Richardson

James Richardson’s work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative that records his 1845‑46 expedition across…

The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule

Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

John Foreman’s work is a sweeping survey of the Philippines under three centuries of Spanish rule, presented…