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Letters to His Son, Complete On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of
The work is a collection of epistolary counsel from the 18th‑century Earl of Chesterfield to his illegitimate…
Reis-impressies
Louis Couperus
Reis‑impressies is een reisverslag van Louis Couperus, waarin de schrijver zijn eerste indrukken van Italië…
Terre-Neuve et les Terre-Neuviennes
Henri de La Chaume
Ce volume est un récit de voyage et de description géographique rédigé par Henri de La Chaume, qui s’adresse…
Brieven uit en over Amerika
Gerritsen, C. V. (Carel Victor); Jacobs, Aletta H.
Dit werk is een verzameling brieven en artikelen van Aletta H.
ReadThe Mediterranean: Seaports and sea routes including Madeira, the Canary Islands, the coast of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia; Handbook for Travellers
Karl Baedeker
The Handbook to the Mediterranean is a comprehensive travel guide that maps out the principal sea routes and…
ReadThe first voyage round the world, by Magellan: translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers
Antonio Pigafetta
The work is a translation of the 16th‑century accounts of Antonio Pigafetta, the chronicler who sailed with…
ReadJournal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.
Charles Darwin
The work is Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries…
Birdseye Views of Far Lands
James T. Nichols
Birdseye Views of Far Lands is a travel‑survey that strings together vivid, fact‑laden sketches of nations…
ReadLife of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)
James Boswell
The work is the fifth volume of James Boswell’s monumental biography of Samuel Johnson, covering the Scottish…
ReadHighways and Byways in Lincolnshire
W. F. Rawnsley
W. F. Rawnsley’s Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire is a detailed travel guide that maps the county’s…
ReadHimalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc.
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Joseph Dalton Hooker’s Himalayan Journals is a sprawling travelogue that doubles as a meticulous…
Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California
Mary E. Anderson
Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California is a mid‑nineteenth‑century travel memoir compiled from the…
ReadBulgaria
Frank Fox
Frank Fox’s work is a first‑hand travelogue and wartime report rather than a conventional guidebook.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
Various
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380 (June 1847) gathers a series of contemporary essays and…
ReadA Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499
This volume presents the original journal of Vasco da Gama’s first voyage to India, 1497‑1499, together with…
ReadThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Antonio Pigafetta
This volume is a scholarly compilation of primary documents that chart the early European encounter with the…
ReadPeeps At Many Lands: Australia
Frank Fox
Frank Fox’s “Peeps At Many Lands: Australia” is a sweeping survey of the continent’s geological birth, its…
ReadOver the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
Charles Warren Stoddard
The work is a travelogue that blends youthful celebration with a sweeping survey of the American West.
ReadNarrative of the Portuguese embassy to Abyssinia during the years 1520-1527
Francisco Alvares
This work is a detailed account of the Portuguese diplomatic mission to Abyssinia between 1520 and 1527,…
ReadHildreth's "Japan as It Was and Is": A Handbook of Old Japan, Volume 2 (of 2)
Richard Hildreth
The Vaudois of Piedmont: A Visit to Their Valleys
J. N. Worsfold
The work is a compact travel‑historical study of the Waldensian (Vaudois) communities of Piedmont, written in…
ReadThe Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4
Frederick Whymper
Frederick Whymper’s The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism is a sprawling, encyclopedic…
ReadFrom North Pole to Equator: Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many Lands
Alfred Edmund Brehm
The work is a posthumous collection of Alfred Edmund Brehm’s public lectures, assembled by his son Horst…
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
Various
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March 1866, is a nineteenth‑century periodical anthology that…