Exploration
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the …
Read by Carol Pelster
Washington Irving
Benjamin Bonneville spent the years 1832 to 1835 on the adventure of a lifetime, leading an expedition of trapping, trading, and exploring i…
The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known, Version 2
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Joseph Jacobs
From the time of the Ancients to expeditions to the North Pole, Jacobs tells the adventure story of the discovery of the different lands and…
With Carson and Fremont
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Edwin L. Sabin
This is another book in the Trail Blazer Series. Being the adventures, in the years 1842–’43–’44, on trail over mountains and through desert…
My Life at Sea
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William Caius Crutchley
The author began his life at sea in sailing-ships, in the age of the Black Ball liners, the Baltimore clipper-ships, and those perfect speci…
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1
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Alfred Russel Wallace
The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels…
A Deep Water Voyage
Read by Barry Eads
Paul Eve Stevenson
Narrative of a fascinating long distance journey by sail that charts a deep water voyage around the Cape of Good Hope to Calcutta. Stevenson…
The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 1
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James Cook
Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…
Little Masterpieces of Science - Explorers
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George Iles
"The love of adventure, the expectation of the unexpected, have ever prompted men stout of heart, and ready of resource, to brave the p…
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
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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…
From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea
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Julius M. Price
A record of a voyage of discovery and adventure, beginning in Siberia and continuing to Northern China in the late 19th Century. - Summary b…
Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia and Laos During the…
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Henri Mouhot
Details of an expedition across Southeast Asia. Includes discussions of peoples, customs journies, buildings and biological observations. - …
Reise durch den Stillen Ozean
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Max Buchner
Max Buchner war ein deutscher Arzt, Ethnograph und Forschungsreisender. Im Jahr 1875 brach er zu einer Weltreise auf, die er als Schiffsarzt…
My Friends the Savages
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Giovanni Battista Cerruti
The author writes his experiences with the Sakai peoples in the Malay peninsula (SE Asia), focusing on their lifestyle and customs. What imp…
The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
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Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was, arguably, the first person to explore North and South America from Cape Hatteras to Uruguay or Argentina, 35° nort…
By Way of Cape Horn
Read by Barry Eads
Paul Eve Stevenson
Author Paul Eve Stevenson tells the tale of his journey around Cape Horn from New York to San Francisco in the mid-19th century aboard a tal…
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…
Letters from the West
Read by Ted Lienhart
James Hall
James Hall was a soldier, lawyer, circuit judge, newspaper editor, historian, and author of fiction. He was also the first publisher of a li…
Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 1
Read by Ted Lienhart
Historical Society Of Michigan
The Michigan Historical Society solicited accounts by Michigan pioneers about the early settlement of various locations, or early developmen…
Los Lusíadas
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Luís Vaz de Camões
¿Qué puede ser mejor que la descripción de viajes de exploración a tierras desconocidas escrito en verso? Esta c…
In the Andamans and Nicobars
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C. Boden Kloss
A glimpse of the indigenous people, rich flora and fauna and the beauty of the islands as recorded by a zoologist, which are fast depleting …