Travel

Traveling Sketches

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
In this small book, Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit and satire the different types of travelers commonly encountered …

The Seven Seas

by Rudyard Kipling Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is a collection of some of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling, These poems are centered around travelling, many of which may have been writt…

The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators

by Hendrik Van Loon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is a story of magnificent failures. The men who equipped the expeditions of which I shall tell you the story died in the poorhouse. The…

Young Americans Abroad

by John Overton Choules Read by Sibella Denton 5
It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with th…

The Book of the National Parks

by Robert Sterling Yard Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.1
Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeto…

Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories

by Anthony Trollope Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In this collection of short stories by Anthony Trollope: A Viennese musician courts a much younger woman. A young man must choose between pu…

Our Search for a Wilderness

by William Beebe and Blair Niles Read by Sue Anderson 4.4
In 1908-1909, Mary Blair Beebe and her husband, C. William Beebe made two private expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana, exploring and…

The Tower Of London

by Arthur Poyser Read by David Wales 4.2
Description. History. “… those who read this book and have no opportunity of visiting the Tower expect that the characters in the moving d…

Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

by Charlotte Mary Yonge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Join Little Lucy on an enchanting journey around the world in Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe. This delightful tale invites young listeners to…

The Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury

by Julia Mary Cartwright Read by LibriVox Volunteers
"This account of the Way trodden by the pilgrims of the Middle Ages through the South of England to the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterb…

Across Asia on a Bicycle

by Thomas Gaskell Allen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
In 1890, two Americans newly graduated from college set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 …

The Story of London

by Henry B. Wheatley Read by Paul Lawley-Jones 4.5
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…

A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines

by Dan Dequille Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the r…

A Guide Book of Art, Architecture, and Historic Interests in Pennsylvania

by Margaretta Archambault Read by Tatiana Chichilla
This book was curated by the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women for tourists' use on a journey to Pennsylvania. Each of Pennsylvania's 6…

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

by Sir John Mandeville Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This is an Elizabethan translation of a 14th century travelogue, allegedly composed by one Sir John Mandeville. According to the book, John …

The Log Of A Sea-Waif

by Frank Thomas Bullen Read by David Wales 3.9
The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…

Lancashire

by Francis Archibald Bruton Read by Phil Benson 4.4
The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Stee…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol VIII, the December Number.It includes the following articles:A Special Announc…

Through East Anglia In A Motor Car

by James Edmund Vincent Read by TND 4.8
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 …

First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier

by Hazard Stevens Read by Sue Anderson 4.3
Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin, made the first documented successful ascent of Mt. Rainier on August …

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