Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome
This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59,…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the August Number. It includes the following articles:* The Work of the National G…
Adlestrop
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of Adlestrop by Edward Thomas. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 20th, 2009.
Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day
Knowing the Egyptian as I know him, I cannot but think that he is greatly misunderstood, even by those who are sincerely anxious to befriend…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the November Number. It includes the following articles:* The Witwatersrand and th…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the July-August Number.It includes the following articles:The Venezuelan Boundary …
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, k…
A Handy Guide for Beggars
"Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pe…
A Waterbiography
Robert C. Leslie (1826-1901) was an artist and writer who, at an early age fell in love with the sea, the sea of Sail, not of Steam. He desc…
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia
"If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from her carriage as she tours Bendigo think again. In 1852,…
Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress
This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…
Many Gods
This is a volume of poetry by Cale Young Rice. The poems in this volume reflect Rice's experiences while travelling across Asia, and many of…
In Galilee
Thornton Chase is commonly recognized as the first convert to the Bahá'í Faith of Occidental background. During his life he or…
Eine Mont-Blanc-Besteigung
Paul Verne war der Bruder von Jules Verne. Er verfaßte für die Buch Reihe seines Bruders zwei Reiseberichte, die zusammen mit Jul…
Ein Sommer in London
Diese 35 kurzen Reiseberichte entstanden, als Theodor Fontane 1852 zum zweiten Mal nach London reiste. Die Stadt faszinierte ihn, und sowohl…
My Travels
This is not a family history. Family histories are invariably dull and of interest to only a few who have a belief in, and are proud of, th…
Reise durch England und Schottland
1819 gerät das Handelshaus, bei dem Johanna Schopenhauer ihr ganzes Geld angelegt hat, in Zahlungsschwierigkeiten. Beim anschließ…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the Introductory by the editor, John Hyde, and the…
The Lusiads
The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tal…
Jenseit des Tweed
Fontanes Bericht über seine Reise nach Schottland mit seinem Freund Bernhard von Lepel. In dem für Fontane charakteristischen Stil…