Exploration

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

Read by Ted Lienhart


John Hanning Speke


This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…

Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures: A Book Of Travel

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Gertrude Bell


Gertrude Bell traveled extensively in the Middle East in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, studying the archaeology and ant…

Across the Andes

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Charles Johnson Post


“The legion that never was listed,”The soft-lilting rhythm and song,The starlight, and shadowy tropics,The palms—and all that belong;The unk…

The Northward Course of Empire

Read by Leon Harvey


Vilhjalmur Stefansson


The Northward Course of Empire was written to promote the idea of a new wave of civil expansion into the Arctic Circle, a region generally c…

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