Travel
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Isabella L. Bird
Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was trave…
The Art of Travel
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Sir Francis Galton
The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from…
How I Found Livingstone
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Henry Morton Stanley
Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying "Dr Livingstone, i Presume?". Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United…
Ein Sommer in London
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Theodor Fontane
Diese 35 kurzen Reiseberichte entstanden, als Theodor Fontane 1852 zum zweiten Mal nach London reiste. Die Stadt faszinierte ihn, und sowohl…
The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Few stories of shipwreck and survival can equal that of the 16th century Spaniard Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca who, cast ashore …
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1
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John Lloyd Stephens
The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…
Im Herzen von Afrika
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Georg Schweinfurth
Schweinfurth trat 1868 im Auftrag der Humboldt-Stiftung in Berlin eine große Reise nach Afrika an. 1869 reiste er von Khartum aus nila…
A Thousand Miles up the Nile
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Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in …
The Journey of Coronado
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Pedro De Castañeda
In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …
A Woman Who Went to Alaska
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May Kellogg Sullivan
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have…
The Lure of the Labrador Wild
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Dillon Wallace
The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi Ri…
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
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Samuel Johnson
In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the H…
The Englishwoman in America
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Isabella L. Bird
Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…
Old Times on the Mississippi
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Mark Twain
Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlan…
Canyons of the Colorado
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John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colora…
Das Warme Polarland
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Ernst Constantin
Ähnlich Jules Verne in seinem Roman "Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde", so führt uns auch Ernst Constantin in die Urtü…
The Stones of Venice, Volume 1
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John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2
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John Lloyd Stephens
The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…
A Traveller in War-Time
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Winston Churchill
This is a collection of a series of journalistic articles written during his travels throughout WWI era Europe that Churchill -- the America…
Mark Twain’s Journal Writings, Volume 2
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Mark Twain
This second collection of essays by Mark Twain is a good example of the diversity of subject matter about which he wrote. As with the essays…