Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
The National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Announcement by the National Geographic SocietyIntr…
The Turkish Embassy Letters
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont) was an English aristocrat and woman of letters. In 1716, she accompanied her husband to Vi…
The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska
Although Mount St. Elias had been known to native Americans for thousands of years and to Europeans since 1741 when Vitus Bering saw the pea…
Idylls Of The Sea
In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquainta…
Young Folks' Treasury
Historical vignettes of selected locations throughout the world and many of our early explorers as well. Fascinating travel adventures throu…
Vacations
This is the 34th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…
The Story of London
A non-exhaustive history of London from the earliest settlement up to early modern times, focusing on the daily lives of its citizens, the a…
Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories
In this collection of short stories by Anthony Trollope: A Viennese musician courts a much younger woman. A young man must choose between pu…
Rambles in New Zealand
John Carne Bidwill came out to Sydney in 1838 to represent his family's mercantile business. Finding that he had time on his hands he decide…
Adrift on an Ice-Pan
This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay …
The Log Of A Sea-Waif
The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…
A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari
A collection of stories set in South-West Africa, several of which are set in the desert. (Summary by ShrimpPhish)
Our Search for a Wilderness
In 1908-1909, Mary Blair Beebe and her husband, C. William Beebe made two private expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana, exploring and…
My Life at Sea
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…
North America
Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In 1861 he travelled through…
Haunted London
London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the world. Surely it holds a few secrets within its ancient walls and the stories of g…
A Ride Across the Peloponnese
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,…
Unknown London
Unknown London invites listeners to uncover the hidden facets of one of the world's most iconic cities. Walter George Bell delves into the l…
With Porter in the Essex
The marvelous cruise of the U.S.S. Essex, the United States frigate of thirty-two guns, commanded by Captain David Porter. A story of his f…
A Little Swiss Sojourn
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family travelin…