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ReadThe Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816, Relating to Byron, Shelley, etc.
John William Polidori
The work is a diary‑like journal kept by John William Polidori, the young physician who accompanied Lord…
ReadJournal of a West India Proprietor Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica
M. G. Lewis
The work is a travel journal kept by Matthew Gregory Lewis, a West‑India proprietor, during his 1815 voyage…
ReadTravels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797
Mungo Park
The work is a first‑person travel journal by Mungo Park, a physician‑explorer commissioned by the African…
ReadMemoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician, vol. 3 (of 3)
Lady Hester Stanhope
The work is a three‑volume memoir dictated by Lady Hester Stanhope to her physician, presented as a series of…
ReadOld Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna
Robert Burn
Robert Burn’s “Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna” is a compact topographical…
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I.
John L. Stephens
This work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that records John L.
ReadExploration of Aïr: Out of the world north of Nigeria
Angus Buchanan
Exploration of Aïr is a first‑person travel narrative by Angus Buchanan, a British military officer and…
ReadWinchester, Painted by Wilfrid Ball
Telford Varley
The work is a selective, non‑systematic guide to Winchester, written in June 1910 by Telford Varley.
ReadUnique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots
Caroline Bancroft
Caroline Bancroft’s Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots is a guidebook that blends travel advice with vivid…
ReadMotor Camping
Long, J. C. (John Cuthbert); Long, John D.
Motor camping is a practical guide to the burgeoning pastime of traveling the United States by automobile and…
ReadEarly voyages and travels in the Levant: I.—The diary of Master Thomas Dallam, 1599-1600. II.—Extracts from the diaries of Dr. John Covel, 1670-1679. With some account of the Levant Company of Turkey merchants.
Covel, John; Dallam, Thomas
The volume presents two rare English manuscripts that record life in Constantinople during the formative…
ReadMy Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year
George Francis Train
The work is an autobiographical memoir dictated by George Francis Train in the summer of his seventy‑fourth…
ReadMemoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in conversations with her physician, vol. 1 (of 3)
Lady Hester Stanhope
This work is a three‑volume memoir compiled by the physician who tended Lady Hester Stanhope during the final…
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864
David Livingstone
This work is a first‑hand account of the Zambesi Expedition, a British‑government‑sanctioned venture that…
ReadAn Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape
Robert Knox
Robert Knox’s work is a first‑hand chronicle of Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka) written after a twenty‑year sojourn…
ReadIn the Wilds of South America
Leo E. Miller
Leo E. Miller’s In the Wilds of South America is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles a series of…
ReadMaximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 3 and appendix
Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von
Maximilian, Prince of Wied’s third part and appendix is a detailed travelogue of his 1832‑34 expedition into…
Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands.
Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Arnold Henry Savage Landor’s work is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles his solitary trek across…
ReadJournals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
George Grey
ReadA guide to the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the city of New York Fifth Edition
Edward Hagaman Hall
This guide, authored by Edward Hagaman Hall, is a practical companion to the Cathedral of Saint John the…
ReadTravels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01
Mungo Park
This work is a first‑person account of Mungo Park’s early African expeditions, compiled from his own journals…
ReadThe Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex Novels
Charles G. Harper
The Hardy Country is a guide‑book that maps the real‑world locations that Thomas Hardy turned into the…
ReadThe Cathedrals of Southern France
M. F. Mansfield
ReadThe Cathedrals of Northern Spain Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them
Charles Rudy
The work is a scholarly survey of the great northern Spanish cathedrals, intertwining their architectural…