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ReadIllustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 2) With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing
George Catlin
This work is a sprawling travelogue and ethnographic record by George Catlin, written as a series of letters…
ReadSailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum
ReadOur Hawaii: (Islands and islanders)
Charmian London
Our Hawaii is a memoir‑travel hybrid that grew out of Charmian London’s notes taken during a two‑year cruise…
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
Edward Hutton
The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that blends vivid description with historical narrative, opening…
ReadThe Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam'
Annie Brassey
The book is a posthumous journal of Lady Annie Brassey’s final cruise aboard the yacht Sunbeam, covering her…
ReadWorking North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America
Harry Alverson Franck
Harry Alverson Franck’s “Working North from Patagonia” is a travelogue that picks up where his earlier…
ReadAcross Coveted Lands; or, a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland
Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Arnold Henry Savage Landor’s Across Coveted Lands is a travelogue that chronicles his overland trek from…
ReadTravels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 5 (of 5): being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth’s fifth volume concludes a monumental five‑part record of a British‑sponsored expedition…
ReadTravels and discoveries in North and Central Africa: Including accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the remarkable kingdom of Bornu, and the countries around Lake Chad
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth’s Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa is a nineteenth‑century geographical…
ReadThe Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland: A Description of Cities, Cathedrals, Lakes, Mountains, Ruins, and Watering-places.
Silloway, Thomas W. (Thomas William); Powers, Lee L.
The work is a nineteenth‑century travel compendium that blends descriptive narrative with historical and…
ReadThe Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7.
Zebulon Montgomery Pike
The work is a meticulous account of Zebulon Montgomery Pike’s 1805‑1807 expeditions, presented in three…
ReadVitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait
Peter Lauridsen
Peter Lauridsen’s work is a scholarly biography of the Danish‑Russian explorer Vitus Bering, whose voyages…
ReadA naturalist in Madagascar A record of observation, experiences, and impressions made during a period of over fifty years' intimate association with the natives and study of the animal & vegetable life of the island
James Sibree
James Sibree’s work is a sprawling natural‑history memoir that blends personal observation with the…
ReadMy First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir
John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra is a natural‑history memoir that begins with a series of vivid…
ReadA Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations
Samuel Hearne
Samuel Hearne’s Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean is a first‑hand…
Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines
H. Wilfrid Walker
The work is a first‑person travel memoir by H. Wilfrid Walker, a naturalist‑collector who spent decades…
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail is a first‑hand travel narrative that chronicles a spring‑time expedition…
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World
Jules Verne
The work is a sweeping survey of the great explorers who have shaped humanity’s knowledge of the globe, from…
ReadThe Standard Galleries - Holland
Esther Singleton
The book is a compact guide to the major Dutch picture‑galleries of the early twentieth century, written by…
ReadThe Romance of the Colorado River: The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh’s work is a first‑hand chronicle of the Colorado River’s early exploration,…
ReadThe Rivers of Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial: Rivers of the East Coast
Various
The volume is a comprehensive, illustrated survey of Britain’s eastern waterways, assembled from a range of…
ReadTwice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London
George Augustus Sala
George Augustus Sala’s Twice round the clock; or, The hours of the day and night in London is a nonfiction…
ReadCeylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1
Sir James Emerson Tennent
Sir James Emerson Tennent’s first volume is a sweeping natural‑history and cultural survey of Ceylon,…
ReadTravels into North America, Volume 3 (of 3)
Pehr Kalm
This third volume of Pehr Kalm’s Travels into North America continues the Swedish naturalist’s detailed…