Travel & Geography

Twilight in Italy

Read by Peter Tucker


D. H. Lawrence


This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…

Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe van de Oost-Indische reyse

Read by Anna Simon


Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe


Het "Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe" is een scheepsjournaal opgetekend door de Hoornse schipper Willem Ysbrantsz Bon…

Scilly and its Legends

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Henry John Whitfield


A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief divers…

China

Read by BettyB


Frank G. Carpenter


Another fascinating in-depth look at the largest country in the world. Its cities, peoples, culture and industry. (Summary by Betty B)

The Hawaiian Archipelago

Read by Jane Bennett


Isabella L. Bird


Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. - Summary by Isabella Bird

California Desert Trails

Read by Steven Seitel


Joseph Smeaton Chase


"I fell an easy prey to the beckonings of the other principal feature of California's topography, the dreamy, dreary desert. Long ago, …

China and the Chinese

Read by Holly


Edmund Plauchut


Edmund Plauchut spent many years in China and gives an account of his observations of the places, people, and culture as he experienced them…

The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)

Read by Steven Seitel


Roald Amundsen


Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to ma…

Young Americans Abroad

Read by Sibella Denton


John Overton Choules


It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with th…

Carpenter's World Travels: Australia, New Zealand and Some Other Islands of the…

Read by BettyB


Frank G. Carpenter


Travel stories of the land "Down Under" from 100 years ago. Native life and scenery and commerce of islands such as Tonga and Fiji…

Italian Hours

Read by Barbara Baker


Henry James


A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2

Carpenter's World Travels: Alaska Our Northern Wonderland

Read by BettyB


Frank G. Carpenter


Early twentieth century travel book about Alaska with stories of major cities, Indian tribes, customs and geography of what would become ou…

Things Seen in Venice

Read by Phil Benson


Lonsdale Ragg and Laura Marie Ragg


Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art…

Glimpses of Bengal

Read by Bhavya


Rabindranath Tagore


The book is a selection of letters written by Tagore, in various places in Bengal, India.

Cape Cod

Read by PhyllisV


Henry David Thoreau


Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and loc…

Cycling in the Alps

Read by Phil Benson


C. L. Freeston


A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…

From Bangkok to Bombay (Siam, French Indo-China, Burma and Hindustan)

Read by BettyB


Frank G. Carpenter


Another entry in Carpenter's geographical reader series with information on the peoples, cultures, and everyday life of this Asian area. - …

In Quest of El Dorado

Read by Steven Seitel


Stephen Graham


Lively (and often unsparing) descriptions of the people, places, and customs that the author encounters as he attempts to retrace the steps …

Lift-Luck on Southern Roads

Read by Steve C


Tickner Edwardes


Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southe…

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