Travel Fiction
Dash for Khartoum
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G. A. Henty
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid…
From Sunrise Land
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Amy Wilson Carmichael
One of the most renowned of all Protestant Christian missionaries, Amy Carmichael is remembered most for the fifty-five years she spent doin…
Round the Moon (Version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Jules Verne
Jules Verne’s sequel to his “From the Earth to the Moon” begins with a short chapter to catch you up, if you missed the first book.Then we j…
Penelope's English Experiences
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. In…
The World's Desire
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Andrew Lang and H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon's Mines the Allan Quatermain Series, and many more) and Andrew Lang (author of, among others, the r…
The Wonderful Year
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Martin Overshaw and Corinna Hastings are leading dull and unproductive lives in Paris, having fled humdrum England. They fall in with Fortin…
Deephaven
Read by Betsie Bush
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common-place daily events to something remar…
Three Men on the Bummel (Version 2)
Read by Terra Mendoza
Jerome K. Jerome
Our Friends from Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog, are back. In this funny sequel to Three Men in a Boat J., George, and Harri…
The City of the Sun
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Tommaso Campanella
A dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-captain, about the latter's voyage to a utopian city. (Summar…
The Gorilla Hunters
Read by Adele de Pignerolles
R. M. Ballantyne
Ralph Rover is happily at home from his adventure on The Coral Island and wondering if he should settle down when he receives a visit from a…
The Voyage Out (Version 2)
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Virginia Woolf
Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voy…
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars
Read by Grant Hurlock
Bampfylde Moore Carew
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant w…
Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa
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Jules Verne
Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes th…
Anything Once
Read by Roger Melin
Isabel Ostrander
An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some ap…
Pomona's Travels
Read by Sibella Denton
Frank R. Stockton
Pomona and Jone of Rudder Grange fame travel to England and Scotland. Along the way, Pomona tangles with wild pigs, haymaking, hotels great …
A Cathedral Courtship
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases…
The Rome Express
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Arthur Griffiths
The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just woken and informed that they will reach Paris soon, and a bustle ensues. On…
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand
Read by Lewis Fletcher
Charlotte Evans
One of the very first New Zealand novels, Over the Hills and Far Away is a heavily romanticised tale of a woman's journey from England to Ot…
The Ghost Camp
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Rolf Boldrewood
Englishman Valentine Blount is traveling in Australia, looking for his fortune. He meets up with John Carter, a bushman known locally as Lit…
The Word of an Engineer
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered f…