Travel & Geography
Viaje a América
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Rafael Puig Y Valls
La crónica de un periodista español que asistió a la Exposición Universal de Chicago en 1893, y que despué…
Prowling About Panama
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George A. Miller
In 1903, Panama became a brand new state in Central America by seceding from Colombia in order to facilitate the construction of the Panama …
A Bachelor Girl in Burma
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Geraldine Edith Mitton
Miss Mitton was an unusual English woman of her time. As a published author, this unmarried woman in her early 30s recorded her visit to Bu…
Meine Reise um die Welt
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Mark Twain
Ein humoristischer Reisebericht von vom Stillen Ozean über Australien nach Indien. - Summary by Katharina21
The First Voyage of James Cook
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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…
The Assault on Mount Everest
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George Mallory
Personal narratives of climbing Mount Everest in 1922-1923. The expeditions did not reach the summit. The northern approach to the mountain…
Through East Anglia In A Motor Car
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James Edmund Vincent
The beginning of the last century saw an increasing popularity of the motor car as a viable method of transport for a significant number of …
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the February Number. It includes the following articles: Crater Lake, Oregon, by J…
The Desirable Alien at Home in Germany
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Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt
A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox F…
Carpenter's World Travels
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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…
North-Pole Voyages
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Zachariah Atwell Mudge
For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…
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)
Voyage en Corse
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Gracieux Faure
La Corse, cette île de la mer Méditerrannée, nous fait immédiatement penser à la nature indomptée, …
Carpenter's World Travels
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Frank G. Carpenter
A travelogue through the countries of France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden for young and old alike. Interesting big cities a…
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 National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the May Number. It includes the following articles:* Africa Since 1888, by Hon. Ga…
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the April Number. It includes the following articles: A Summer Voyage to the Arcti…
A Ride Across the Peloponnese
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George Macmillan
In the spring of 1877, a young Oscar Wilde visited Greece with his classics professor, J. P. Mahaffy, and two friends. One of these friends,…
Your United States
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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…
Three Gringos in Venezuela
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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…