Travel & Geography
The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 1
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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
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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
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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…
Carpenter's World Travels: From Tangier to Tripoli
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Frank G. Carpenter
Author's account of travels through Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli and the Sahara Desert with stories about the people, climate, industry and cul…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 02. February 1897
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the February Number. It includes the following articles: Crater Lake, Oregon, by J…
North-Pole Voyages
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Zachariah Atwell Mudge
For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…
Carpenter's World Travels: France to Scandinavia
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Frank G. Carpenter
A travelogue through the countries of France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden for young and old alike. Interesting big cities a…
Canada and Newfoundland
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Frank G. Carpenter
Another entry in Carpenter's series of World Travels focusing on Canada and Newfoundland. (Summary by Betty B)
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 05. May 1896
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the May Number. It includes the following articles:* Africa Since 1888, by Hon. Ga…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 04. April 1897
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the April Number. It includes the following articles: A Summer Voyage to the Arcti…
A Ride Across the Peloponnese
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George Macmillan
In the spring of 1877, a young Oscar Wilde visited Greece with his classics professor, J. P. Mahaffy, and two friends. One of these friends,…
Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit
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Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…
Kamakura
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Yone Noguchi
'Kamakura is nothing if she has no history, writes Japanese novelist, poet, and essayist Yone Noguchi. At the turn of the 20th century, Kama…
Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America
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Richard Harding Davis
In the 1890's, three American adventurers in search of warmer weather explore Central and South American cities by steamship and on horsebac…
Tales Of English Minsters: Canterbury Cathedral Kent and Saint Paul's London
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Elizabeth W. Grierson
These simple stories of two of England’s greatest cathedrals were originally written for youth (1910) but adults will also enjoy them. St. …
A Guide to the Lakes
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Thomas West
In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and S…
From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
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Sven Hedin
This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europ…
In the Oregon Country
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George Palmer Putnam
This little book does not undertake to present a comprehensive account of our westernmost States, or even of the Oregon Country. It is inten…
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water
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Ethel Gwendoline Vincent
Subtitled "The Journal of a Tour through the British Empire and America," this book is a record of the author's travels with her h…
Scottish Reminiscences
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Archibald Geikie
Archibald Geikie was a geologist in Scotland by profession, and a writer. While most of his writings were professional, this is a more perso…