Exploration
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
Read by Phil Schempf
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
Read by Tatiana Chichilla
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…
Read by Steve Gough
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
Read by mleigh
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…