Travel & Geography
Travels in West Africa
Read by Nathalie J.
Mary H. Kingsley
Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Afric…
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
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Lafcadio Hearn
In an introductory paragraph, Lafcadio Hearn declares his intention: "The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than …
Letters of Travel
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Rudyard Kipling
Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stor…
Domestic Manners of the Americans
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Frances Milton Trollope
Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least noto…
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah
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Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hyp…
Pictures from Italy
Read by Anthony Ogus
Charles Dickens
Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…
The Romance of Missionary Heroism
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John C Lambert
The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …
On a Chinese Screen
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W. Somerset Maugham
This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
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Ezra Meeker
This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American settler in the Pacific Northwest. (Description by BellonaTimes)
Wilderness; A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska
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Rockwell Kent
The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though a…
Diary of a Pilgrimage
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Jerome K. Jerome
A possibly fictionalised account by the comic novelist Jerome K. Jerome of a trip to Germany that he undertook with a friend in order to see…
Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora
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George Hamilton
George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty …
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 2
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Africa, its Past and FutureReports on:Geography of …
Dog-Watches At Sea
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Stanton Henry King
Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reaso…
The White Heart of Mojave
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Edna Brush Perkins
"The White Heart of the Mojave" recounts a 1920's adventure "in the wind and sun and big spaces" of Death Valley by two …
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 2
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Thomas Stevens
Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Franc…
American Notes
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Rudyard Kipling
In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-India…
The Prairie Traveler
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Randolph B. Marcy
Commissioned by the US War Department and written in 1859 by a decorated US Army captain, The Prairie Traveler is a complete how-to travel g…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 3
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 3 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:The Rivers and Valleys of PennsylvaniaTopographic M…
The Spell of Egypt
Read by Sibella Denton
Robert Smythe Hichens
The author, a British journalist and novelist, is interested in the feel of the places he visits. He describes at length a visit he has made…