Exploration
30 books
*Non-fiction
630
Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Book of American Explorers
This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the early discoverers and explorers of the American continent from the Northmen...
9 hours 54 minutes
Memoirs
531
Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon - Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission
The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition was the famous survey that took place in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida («River of Doubt») in the Amazon basin. The expedition was jointly led by Theodore...
6 hours 17 minutes
Modern (19th C)
507
George Broke - With Sack and Stock in Alaska
In 1888, George Broke with Harold Topham and William Williams, made the first exploration of the Alaskan Mt. St. Elias range, including the crossing of the great Malaspina Glacier and an attempt on the S.E. face of...
3 hours 10 minutes
Exploration
552
Adolphus W. Greely - True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World
The Arctic has always been a fascinating area for us. This is true today just as much as in Adolphus Greely's time. In 1912, Greely published this volume of notable Arctic explorations and the explorers. The modern...
9 hours 8 minutes
Nature
545
Ernst Dieffenbach - Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country, Vol. I
“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, others covered with shrubs, while on all of them steam issued from a hundred...
10 hours 32 minutes
Animals
485
William Beebe - Our Search for a Wilderness, An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana
In 1908-1909, Mary Blair Beebe and her husband, C. William Beebe made two private expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana, exploring and collecting live birds for the New York Zoological Park. They then...
11 hours 12 minutes
