Exploration
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…
The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks from 25 August 1768-12 July 1771
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Joseph Banks
In this Journal, Joseph Banks records almost daily observations of the journey of the ship the Endeavour on the first of James Cook’s voyage…
The Last Secrets
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John Buchan
The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two dec…
Columbus
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Joaquin Miller
This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller. This was the weekly poetr…
A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
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Anna (Annie) Allnutt Brassey, Anna and Anna Brassey
Mrs. Brassey, (in future, Lady Brassey) describes the events and sights of her family's voyage around in the world in 1876-1877 ( Dovie Cros…
With Sack and Stock in Alaska
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George Broke
In 1888, George Broke with Harold Topham and William Williams, made the first exploration of the Alaskan Mt. St. Elias range, including the …
Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley
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John Gilmary Shea
"It has long been a desideratum to have in English the early narratives, of the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi. Marquette…
The Sea and the Jungle
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Henry Major Tomlinson
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…
The Romance of Polar Exploration
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G. Firth Scott
While stories of the Polar explorers and their efforts to reach the Poles have been told again and again, the constant renewal of expedition…
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Ver…
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Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …
Into the Frozen South
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James William Slessor Marr and James W. S. Marr
James Marr was a Boy Scout selected to go along with Sir Ernest Shackleton aboard the Quest in 1921 for the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition to …
Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, an…
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Ernst Dieffenbach
“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, o…
Gold Hunting in Alaska
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Joseph Grinnell
In 1898, naturalist, Joseph Grinnell joins a company of twenty men bound for Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, from California aboard the schooner Pen…
The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543
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John Leland
John Leland's 'Itinerary' was the product of several journeys around England and Wales undertaken between 1538 and 1543. The manuscript is m…
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)
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Roald Amundsen
Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to ma…
The Lost Oases
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Ahmed Hassanein
This book was published in 1925. Oxford-educated Egyptian diplomat and geographic explorer, Hassanein Bey (Ahmad Muhammad Hassanayn), with t…
Travel Stories Retold From St. Nicholas
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Various
St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-w…
Peaks of Shala
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Rose Wilder Lane
This book was published in 1923. From the author's own Introduction: "I would not have this book considered too seriously. It is not an…