Travel
Highways and Byways in Sussex
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. V. Lucas
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
Anna Harriette Leonowens
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…
In Kent with Charles Dickens
Read by Ruth Golding
Thomas Frost
By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…
Afloat on the Ohio
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…
The Andes and The Amazon
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James Orton
This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedition of 1867 to the equatorial…
East by West
Read by Ruth Golding
Sir Henry W. Lucy
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883…
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
Read by James E. Carson
Henry Fielding
Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights…
Anything Once
Read by Roger Melin
Isabel Ostrander
An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some ap…
Europe Revised
Read by Sibella Denton
Irvin S. Cobb
Irwin Cobb's humorous Europe Revised is a travelogue and comedy almost in the style of Mark Twain. The dedication says it best, "To My …
California
Read by Adam Marcetich
J. Tyrwhitt Brooks and Henry Vizetelly
Henry Vizetelly, writing under the pseudonym J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, recalls an expedition to California he took between 1847-1848 . Originally,…
On the Trail of Don Quixote
Read by Sue Anderson
August F. Jaccaci
On the Trail of Don Quixote is an engaging 1890’s “record of rambles in the Ancient Province of La Mancha” by two artist friends, French aut…
A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar
Read by R. S. Steinberg
George Bethune English
As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the…