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Richard Henry Dana, Jr. - Two Years Before the Mast

While there are many books upon the subject of sea life, there are few that can compare with Two Years Before the Mast . It is the story of a sailor's life from the forecastle, not a captain, nor a passenger, but a...

BethAnne and 1 more 17 hours 41 minutes

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Francis Parkman, Jr. - Oregon Trail

The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23. (Summary by Wikipedia)

R. S. Steinberg 12 hours 58 minutes

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Theodore Bent - Southern Arabia

Southern Arabia recounts a threatening four-month journey into North Eastern Ethiopia by the Bents. These brave travelers were the first to travel without disguise in a region where Westerners had formerly been...

April Brown and 8 more 14 hours 27 minutes

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Charlotte Mary Yonge - Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

Travel with Little Lucy around the globe and learn a little geography and small bits about other cultures.(Summary by Laura Caldwell)

Cori Samuel and 6 more 1 hour 40 minutes

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 03. March 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It includes the following articles: The So-Called Jeannette Relics, by Professor William H. Dall Nansen's Polar Expedition, by General...

Availle and 4 more 1 hour 39 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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General

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James Baikie - Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt

Written primarily for children, James Baikie's 'peep' at ancient Egypt is a really well done, historical account of the ways of that fascinating land so many years ago. It has stood well the test of time, being both...

Sibella Denton 2 hours 23 minutes

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Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53

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Ellen Clacy - Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53

«If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from her carriage as she tours Bendigo think again. In 1852, 20 year old clergyman’s daughter Ellen and her brother boarded ship for Melbourne...

Annise and 1 more 6 hours 27 minutes

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Religion

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G. K. Chesterton - New Jerusalem

The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone involved in the production of this book, and are not the views of LibriVox. Dale Ahlquist calls the book a «philosophical travelogue» of Chesterton's...

Ray Clare 10 hours 8 minutes

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Alexander William Kinglake - Eothen, or Impressions of Travel brought Home from the East

A classic of victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey through the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his residence there in time of plague. [Summary by hefyd]

hefyd and 6 more 8 hours 34 minutes

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Elizabeth Davis Bancroft - Letters from England, 1846-1849

Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft, for three of the most dynamicy years in European hstory. As Ambassador to England from the United States, George moved in the highest...

Sibella Denton 3 hours 7 minutes

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Isabella L. Bird - Englishwoman in America

Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chicago, Prince Edward Island, and Cincinatti. Her observations on the trials and...

Sibella Denton 12 hours 12 minutes

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Isabella L. Bird - Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. She was a single woman in her early forties when she made her treck through the Rocky...

Laura Caldwell 7 hours 56 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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