Travel & Geography
Carpenter's World Travels: Alaska Our Northern Wonderland
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Frank G. Carpenter
Early twentieth century travel book about Alaska with stories of major cities, Indian tribes, customs and geography of what would become ou…
Lift-Luck on Southern Roads
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Tickner Edwardes
Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southe…
Glimpses of Bengal
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Rabindranath Tagore
The book is a selection of letters written by Tagore, in various places in Bengal, India.
Things Seen in Venice
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Lonsdale Ragg and Laura Marie Ragg
Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art…
Cycling in the Alps
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C. L. Freeston
A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…
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…
The Wild North Land, The Story of a Winter Journey with Dogs across Northern No…
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William Francis Butler
This book was published in 1910.Not only do Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun, but it seems that sometimes they venture into…
Prowling About Panama
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George A. Miller
In 1903, Panama became a brand new state in Central America by seceding from Colombia in order to facilitate the construction of the Panama …
Things Seen in Florence
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Elizabeth W. Grierson
One of the largest and wealthiest cities of medieval Europe, the home of Dante and Giotto has long been a magnet for lovers of art, architec…
The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Li…
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Frank Thomas Bullen
The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…
A Bachelor Girl in Burma
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Geraldine Edith Mitton
Miss Mitton was an unusual English woman of her time. As a published author, this unmarried woman in her early 30s recorded her visit to Bu…
The Alps, the Danube and the Near East
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Frank G. Carpenter
Journeying through many countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Switzerland and Greece, the author gives an in-depth account of many …
The Adventures of a Woman Hobo
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Ethel Grace Lynn
Ethel and Dan Lynn wed in San Francisco in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 earthquake. The young couple soon moved to Chicago where she …
The Desirable Alien at Home in Germany
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Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt
A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox F…
The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922
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George Mallory
Personal narratives of climbing Mount Everest in 1922-1923. The expeditions did not reach the summit. The northern approach to the mountain…
The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 1
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James Cook
In May 1768, the Admiralty commissioned the 39-year old Cook to command a scientific voyage to the Pacific Ocean to observe and record the 1…
Through East Anglia In A Motor Car
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James Edmund Vincent
The beginning of the last century saw an increasing popularity of the motor car as a viable method of transport for a significant number of …
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 02. February 1897
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the February Number. It includes the following articles: Crater Lake, Oregon, by J…
North-Pole Voyages
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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…
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…