Travel & Geography
Young Americans Abroad
Read by Sibella Denton
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…
Carpenter's World Travels: Alaska Our Northern Wonderland
Read by BettyB
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…
Glimpses of Bengal
Read by Bhavya
Rabindranath Tagore
The book is a selection of letters written by Tagore, in various places in Bengal, India.
Cycling in the Alps
Read by Phil Benson
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…
Lift-Luck on Southern Roads
Read by Steve C
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…
Things Seen in Venice
Read by Phil Benson
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…
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…
The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Li…
Read by David Wales
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…
The Wild North Land, The Story of a Winter Journey with Dogs across Northern No…
Read by Steven Seitel
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…
Viaje a América (Tomo 2 de 2)
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Rafael Puig Y Valls
La crónica de un periodista español que asistió a la Exposición Universal de Chicago en 1893, y que despué…
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 …
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
Read by Phil Benson
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 Alps, the Danube and the Near East
Read by BettyB
Frank G. Carpenter
Journeying through many countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Switzerland and Greece, the author gives an in-depth account of many …
A Bachelor Girl in Burma
Read by Mary Ann Hadley
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…
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…
The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 1
Read by David Cole
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
Read by TND
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 Desirable Alien at Home in Germany
Read by Barbara Baker
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…