Exploration
Captain Cook
Read by Pamela Nagami
Walter Besant
James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed …
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 2
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Jules Verne
This volume, entitled "The Great Navigators of the 18th century", forms the second of three volumes under the general title of &qu…
The Frozen North
Read by Laura Victoria
Edith Horton
The Frozen North offers short sketches of the first men who bravely took great risks to explore the unknown polar regions and unlock the mys…
The Ascent of Denali
Read by Phil Schempf
Hudson Stuck
The story of the First Ascent of Denali by Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Walter Harper and Robert Tatum in 1913, recorded in celebration of …
Travels in the Interior of Africa
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Mungo Park
Mungo Park, a Scottish surgeon and explorer, was sent out by the 'Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa' after M…
Farthest North, Volume II
Read by Sharon Riskedahl
Fridtjof Nansen
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Fram", 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and …
Yellowstone National Park: Six Early Pieces
Read by David Wales
Various
Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding hi…
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 3
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Jules Verne
This volume, entitled "The great explorers of the 19th century", forms the third of three volumes under the general title of "…
A Description of New England
Read by Algy Pug
Captain John Smith
Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted fo…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 20 - Adventurers of the Far North
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Stephen Leacock
This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This volume describes the explorers who braved the Canadian Arctic in search of the No…
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
Read by Lee Smalley
Matthew A. Henson
In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the…
Explorers and Travellers
Read by William Tomcho
Adolphus W. Greely
“Explorers and Travellers” is a collection of short biographies of some of America’s intrepid explorers. Adolphus W. Greely writes brief but…
Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847
Read by Phil Schempf
John Rae
After the bizarre death of Thomas Simpson, Dr. John Rae was chosen to complete the survey of the Northwest Passage, linking the work of Simp…
Descubrimiento del río de las Amazonas
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Gaspar de Carvajal and Gaspar De Carvajal
Casi cincuenta años después del descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo, una avanzada del imperio de Carlos V viaja hacia el este desde…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 19 - Pathfinders of the Great Plains
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Lawrence J. Burpee
This is volume 19 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This is the account of La Verendryes' quest for an overland route to the Pacific Ocean…
Early explorations in New South Wales: A collection
Read by Phil Benson
Various
In the early days of the penal colony at Sydney, rumour was rife among the convicts of another colony beyond the Blue Mountains and perhaps …
True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World
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Adolphus W. Greely
The Arctic has always been a fascinating area for us. This is true today just as much as in Adolphus Greely's time. In 1912, Greely publishe…
Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860
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Andrew Jackson
A non-fictional account of Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition to cross the Australian continent from south to north and then return. Containi…
Impresiones y paisajes
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Federico García Lorca
Libro de viajes de Federico García Lorca, donde recoge sus impresiones y pensamientos íntimos ante la contemplación de …
A Book of American Explorers
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the…