Travel

Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. Volume I. Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830

Fitzroy, Robert; King, Philip Parker

The work is a formal naval report of the first surveying expedition undertaken by His Majesty’s ships…

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs

Isabella L. Bird

Isabella L. Bird’s Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 offers a travelogue rather than a systematic…

The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3

Frederick Whymper

Frederick Whymper’s The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism is a sprawling survey of…

The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career

Vespucci, Amerigo; Casas, Bartolomé de las; Columbus, Christopher

The volume is a scholarly collection that brings together the surviving letters of Amerigo Vespucci, the…

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 2 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs

Isabella L. Bird

The work is a travelogue that records Isabella L. Bird’s summer expedition through the upper Karun region and…

My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills

Sir James Johnstone

The work is a first‑person memoir of Sir James Johnstone, an Anglo‑Indian officer who spent the 1870s and…

Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921

Howard-Bury, Charles; Mallory, George; Wollaston, A. F. R.

The book is a formal report of the 1921 reconnaissance of Mount Everest, compiled by the Royal Geographical…

From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People

Sven Anders Hedin

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

David Livingstone

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales

T. L. Mitchell

Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe

William Bingley

What I Saw in America

G. K. Chesterton

American Rural Highways

T. R. Agg

Nooks and Corners of Old England

Allan Fea

A Wanderer in Paris

E. V. Lucas

Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties

Elizabeth Robins Pennell

My attainment of the Pole: being the record of the expedition that first reached the boreal center, 1907-1909. With the final summary of the polar controversy

Frederick Albert Cook

The Ascent of the Matterhorn

Edward Whymper

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I.

John L. Stephens

My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year

George Francis Train

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2

George Grey

The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere

Charles de Coster

Afloat on the Ohio: an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo

Reuben Gold Thwaites

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848)

T. L. Mitchell