Exploration
Opening the West with Lewis and Clark
One of the significant and astounding explorations, in 1804-1806, was the expedition under the leadership of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Ca…
Fast in the Ice
At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every…
The Track of the Typhoon
In 1920, William Nutting, editor of Motor Boat Magazine and an experienced sailor, commissioned his friend, legendary naval architect Willia…
Yellowstone National Park
Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding hi…
Celebrated Travels and Travellers
Celebrated Travels and Travellers by Jules Verne invites listeners on a captivating journey through the annals of exploration. This second v…
The Last Journals of David Livingstone
Known primarily as a missionary, David Livingstone headed into the wilds of Central Africa, intending to find the course of the Nile. Docume…
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the…
Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China
Details of an expedition across Southeast Asia. Includes discussions of peoples, customs journies, buildings and biological observations. - …
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
Benjamin Bonneville spent the years 1832 to 1835 on the adventure of a lifetime, leading an expedition of trapping, trading, and exploring i…
Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley
"It has long been a desideratum to have in English the early narratives, of the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi. Marquette…
With Carson and Fremont
This is another book in the Trail Blazer Series. Being the adventures, in the years 1842–’43–’44, on trail over mountains and through desert…
Gold Hunting in Alaska
In 1898, naturalist, Joseph Grinnell joins a company of twenty men bound for Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, from California aboard the schooner Pen…
Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition
In 1860, Robert O'Hara Burke and his team embarked on a bold expedition to traverse the Australian continent from south to north, aiming to …
The Saga of the Greenlanders
The Saga of the Greenlanders is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North Americ…
Celebrated Travels and Travellers
Celebrated Travels and Travellers by Jules Verne invites listeners on an enlightening journey through the age of exploration in the 19th cen…
The Saga of Erik the Red
The Saga of Erik the Red is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, a…
Explorers and Travellers
“Explorers and Travellers” is a collection of short biographies of some of America’s intrepid explorers. Adolphus W. Greely writes brief but…
Rambles in New Zealand
John Carne Bidwill came out to Sydney in 1838 to represent his family's mercantile business. Finding that he had time on his hands he decide…
The Mystery of Easter Island
To this day, Easter Island, with its magnificent stone structures, remains an enigma. Katherine Routledge was part of an exhaustive archaeol…
Letters from the West
James Hall was a soldier, lawyer, circuit judge, newspaper editor, historian, and author of fiction. He was also the first publisher of a li…