Travel & Geography

A Guide to the Lakes

Read by Phil Benson


Thomas West


In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and S…

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…

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…

One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends

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Carl Parcher Russell


This recording of the 1931 (1947 second edition) book about Yosemite National Park comprises the narrative text about the Park from its disc…

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…

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…

The Adventures of a Woman Hobo

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Ethel Grace Lynn


Ethel and Dan Lynn wed in San Francisco in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 earthquake. The young couple soon moved to Chicago where she …

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)

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…

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…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 04. April 1896

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the April Number. It includes the following articles:* Serilan, by W J McGee and W…

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…

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…

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…

My Travels, A Family Story

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Maria Hackett


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…

Around the World with the Children

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Frank G. Carpenter


An introduction to world geography for young and old alike. Topics such as China, Japan, the American Indian, Europe and the oceans on a beg…

Meine Reise um die Welt. Erste Abteilung

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Mark Twain


Ein humoristischer Reisebericht von vom Stillen Ozean über Australien nach Indien. - Summary by Katharina21

Tours in the South Coast District

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Queensland Railways


An early booklet, designed to encourage tourism in the northern parts of New South Wales, and the southern parts of Queensland, particularly…

Twenthe

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Jacobus Craandijk


Wandeling door het moderniserende Twenthe van 1870. De fabrieken van Hengelo en Enschede, de mooie landerijen van Kasteel Twickel, het Volks…

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