Epic Journeys of Exploration

This collection features remarkable accounts of exploration and adventure, showcasing the indomitable spirit of those who ventured into the unknown. From the icy expanses of Antarctica to the deserts of Libya, these narratives capture the challenges and triumphs of explorers throughout history.

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World

by James Cook Read by David Cole 4.6
Having, on his first voyage, discovered Australia, Cook still had to contend with those who maintained that the Terra Australians Incognita …

The Lure of the Labrador Wild

by Dillon Wallace Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi Ri…

How I Found Livingstone

by Henry Morton Stanley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying "Dr Livingstone, i Presume?". Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United…

South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition

by Ernest Shackleton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic to the Ross …

Among the Tibetans

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Availle 4.6
Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeav…

The South Pole

by Roald Amundsen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In contrast to Scott's South Pole expedition, Amundsen's expedition benefited from good equipment, appropriate clothing, and a fundamentally…

The Journey of Coronado

by Pedro De Castañeda Read by Sue Anderson 4.5
In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …

The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard Read by Kevin Green 4.8
The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written and publ…

Westward Hoboes

by Winifred Hawkridge Dixon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Dixo…

The Sea and the Jungle

by Henry Major Tomlinson Read by Tatiana Chichilla 4.9
Considered one of the greatest travel narratives, The Sea and the Jungle is H.M. Tomlinson's firsthand account of the first journey of an En…