Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland …
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in Conversations with her Physician, comprising her opinions and anecdotes of som…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, June 1899.It includes the following articles:National Growth and National C…
Wild and romantic
A collection of some of the most significant literary work on the English Lake District prior to Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). …
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, July 1898, the N.E.A. Number.It includes the following articles:American G…
The Book of the National Parks
Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeto…
The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances
The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "…
The Mentor
The Mentor Association was established to increase interest and knowledge among the public in the areas of art, literature, science, nature,…
America of the Fifties
When Fredrika Bremer arrived in New York from Sweden in October 1849, she was already famous throughout America for her novels and for her r…
A Guide to the Lakes
In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and S…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the May Number. It includes the following articles:* Africa Since 1888, by Hon. Ga…
Songs of Sea and Sail
Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boat…
Man and Nature on the Broads
From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations, the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk have evolved into a natural ecosy…
Exeter
Exeter, county town of Devon, is one of England's most historic cities with remains of the Roman occupation and medieval times still on view…
Our Little Korean Cousin
This book is one of a series that aims at describing other cultures to children in an entertaining way that honors the culture, educates the…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, April 1899.It includes the following articles:The Sources of the Saskatchew…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the September Number. It includes the following articles:* The Recent Earthquake W…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the July Number. It includes the following articles:* The Work of the United State…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, the January Number.It includes the following articles:Three Weeks in Hubba…
An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland
In the summer of 1773, lawyer and antiquarian William Hutchinson set out from his home in County Durham on a tour of the English Lake Distri…