Exploration
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…
The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543
Read by Phil Benson
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…
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 North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)
Read by Steven Seitel
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
Read by Steven Seitel
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
Read by David Wales
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
Read by Steven Seitel
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…
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
Read by Zach Hoyt
Mina Benson Hubbard
Mina Benson Hubbard set out in 1905 on a 576 mile canoe journey across the interior of Labrador with the assistance of four guides. Her husb…
How the Codex Was Found
Read by Hannah Mary
Margaret Dunlop Gibson and Agnes Smith Lewis
"The narrative of these two journeys is of special interest, because the first one, that made by my twin sister, Mrs. Lewis, and myself…
Shores of the Polar Sea: A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6
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Edward Lawton Moss
"THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION of 1875 left England on 29th May, crossed the Atlantic to Davis Straits in a succession of storms, and entered t…
Opening the West with Lewis and Clark
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Edwin L. Sabin
One of the significant and astounding explorations, in 1804-1806, was the expedition under the leadership of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Ca…
A Gringo In Mañana-Land
Read by David Wales
Harry La Tourette Foster
Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…
Across America by Motorcycle
Read by Barry Eads
C. K. Shepherd
The year is 1919 and Charles Kenilworth ("C.K.") Shepherd, a former British Royal Air Force Captain and World War I veteran, has d…
North-Pole Voyages
Read by Kristine Bekere
Zachariah Atwell Mudge
For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…
Syria: the Desert and the Sown
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Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…
The Track of the "Typhoon"
Read by Alan Dove
William Washburn Nutting
In 1920, William Nutting, editor of Motor Boat Magazine and an experienced sailor, commissioned his friend, legendary naval architect Willia…
Rambles in New Zealand
Read by Beeswaxcandle
John Carne Bidwill
John Carne Bidwill came out to Sydney in 1838 to represent his family's mercantile business. Finding that he had time on his hands he decide…
Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation
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Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee and Review Of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee
"The [Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee] shall conduct an independent review of ongoing U.S. human space flight plans a…
Titan Of Chasms: The Grand Canyon Of Arizona
Read by David Wales
Charles F. Lummis
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Cha…
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission
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Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon and Candido Mariano Da Silva Rondon
The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition was the famous survey that took place in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida (…