Exploration
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World
Read by David Cole
James Cook
Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent), Cook returns to New Zealand via the Friendly Island…
Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China
Read by Steve Cullen
Robert Fortune
An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside…
Maw's Vacation
Read by Laurie Banza
Emerson Hough
Times has changed! Maw has only known hard work her whole life. She’s been married to Paw for 40 years, helping raise crops, raising childre…
Through Timbuctu and Across the Great Sahara
Read by Robert Fischer
Austin H. W. Haywood
Through Timbuctu and across the great Sahara: an account of an adventurous journey of exploration from Sierra Leone to the source of the Nig…
The Last Journals of David Livingstone
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David Livingstone and Horace Waller
Known primarily as a missionary, David Livingstone headed into the wilds of Central Africa, intending to find the course of the Nile. Docume…
The Mystery of Easter Island
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Katherine Routledge
To this day, Easter Island, with its magnificent stone structures, remains an enigma. Katherine Routledge was part of an exhaustive archaeol…
Auf Schneeschuhen durch Grönland
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Fridtjof Nansen
Eine Beschreibung des Autors von einer Expedition die Grönland von der Ost - zur Westküste durchquert, Teil 1.Zusammenfassung von …
The Great White North
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Helen S. Wright
Sketches of those who braved the 'Great White North' in exploration and adventure. - Summary by KevinS
The Life of Columbus
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Sir Arthur Helps
A factual account of the life of Christopher Columbus, from his early years, through discoveries in the New World, to his death in 1506. - S…
The Cruise of the Corwin
Read by Mark Harrington
John Muir
"The Cruise of the Corwin is John Muir's account of a voyage he took in 1881 on the steamer Thomas Corwin, which set sail from San Fran…
The Romance of Early Exploration
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Archibald Williams
The Author has been encouraged by the reception given to The Romance of Modern Exploration to write a companion volume on the adventures of …
Gertrude Bell
Read by Lynette Caulkins
Ronald Bodley and Lorna Hearst
A highly engaging biography about a fascinating English woman who was most unusual for her time. An adventurous traveler who fell completely…
The Romance of Modern Exploration
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Archibald Williams
It may be thought, perhaps, that exploration must be comparatively easy today. Less laborious no doubt it is in some details when Mandevill…
The Land of Midian
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Richard Francis Burton
The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken by the second Expedition, which, like the first, owes all to the liberality a…
By Way of Cape Horn
Read by Barry Eads
Paul Eve Stevenson
Author Paul Eve Stevenson tells the tale of his journey around Cape Horn from New York to San Francisco in the mid-19th century aboard a tal…
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
Read by Carol Pelster
Washington Irving
Benjamin Bonneville spent the years 1832 to 1835 on the adventure of a lifetime, leading an expedition of trapping, trading, and exploring i…
A Deep Water Voyage
Read by Barry Eads
Paul Eve Stevenson
Narrative of a fascinating long distance journey by sail that charts a deep water voyage around the Cape of Good Hope to Calcutta. Stevenson…
My Life at Sea
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William Caius Crutchley
The author began his life at sea in sailing-ships, in the age of the Black Ball liners, the Baltimore clipper-ships, and those perfect speci…
The Malay Archipelago
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Alfred Russel Wallace
The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels…
The Story of Geographical Discovery
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Joseph Jacobs
From the time of the Ancients to expeditions to the North Pole, Jacobs tells the adventure story of the discovery of the different lands and…