Travel & Geography
The World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and…
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Eva March Tappan
This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March…
Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century
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W. H. Davenport Adams
The nineteenth century saw the expansion in popularity of travel among the wealthy. Add to this the independence more women were enjoying as…
The Ins and Outs of Paris or Paris by Day and Night
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Julie de Marguerittes
Paris has been often described, by travelers, by artists, by savants, by friends and by enemies, yet it was after reading most of the works …
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Isabella L. Bird
Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. - Summary by Isabella Bird
Twilight in Italy
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D. H. Lawrence
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…
History of a Six Weeks' Tour
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Rou…
Scilly and its Legends
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Henry John Whitfield
A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief divers…
Carpenter's World Travels: Australia, New Zealand and Some Other Islands of the…
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Frank G. Carpenter
Travel stories of the land "Down Under" from 100 years ago. Native life and scenery and commerce of islands such as Tonga and Fiji…
China
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Frank G. Carpenter
Another fascinating in-depth look at the largest country in the world. Its cities, peoples, culture and industry. (Summary by Betty B)
Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe van de Oost-Indische reyse
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Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe
Het "Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe" is een scheepsjournaal opgetekend door de Hoornse schipper Willem Ysbrantsz Bon…
Italian Hours
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Henry James
A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2
California Desert Trails
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Joseph Smeaton Chase
"I fell an easy prey to the beckonings of the other principal feature of California's topography, the dreamy, dreary desert. Long ago, …
China and the Chinese
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Edmund Plauchut
Edmund Plauchut spent many years in China and gives an account of his observations of the places, people, and culture as he experienced them…
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)
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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…
Young Americans Abroad
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John Overton Choules
It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with th…
Cape Cod
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Henry David Thoreau
Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and loc…
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…
From Bangkok to Bombay (Siam, French Indo-China, Burma and Hindustan)
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Frank G. Carpenter
Another entry in Carpenter's geographical reader series with information on the peoples, cultures, and everyday life of this Asian area. - …
In Quest of El Dorado
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Stephen Graham
Lively (and often unsparing) descriptions of the people, places, and customs that the author encounters as he attempts to retrace the steps …