Travel & Geography

130 books

All Stories Novels

New TOP Discussed

24 hrs 7 days 30 days All the time

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1

Travel & Geography

438

John Lloyd Stephens - Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1

The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, are about to rediscover Mayan civilization. Their guide, slashing through the...

Sue Anderson 15 hours 11 minutes

No comments

National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1

Nature

472

National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1

National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are: Announcement by the National Geographic Society Introductory Address by the President Geographic...

A. J. Carroll and 4 more 3 hours 40 minutes National Geographic Magazines

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

474

Hiram Bingham - Inca Lands

Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale Makes the Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the Age by Locating and Excavating Ruins of Machu Picchu on a Peak in the Andes of Peru. There is nothing new under the sun, they say....

elmay and 4 more 9 hours 55 minutes

No comments

Travel & Geography

435

Edna Brush Perkins - White Heart of Mojave

«The White Heart of the Mojave» recounts a 1920's adventure «in the wind and sun and big spaces» of Death Valley by two independent minded women, Edna Brush Perkins and Charlotte Hannahs Jordan. Both women were early...

Sue Anderson 4 hours 44 minutes

No comments

Poetry

465

Australian Miscellany

A collection in celebration of 2012 Year of Reading Australia. Readers chose fiction, non fiction and poetry — we only asked that the readings should have some sort of Australian hook. So they can be by an Australian...

Algy Pug and 12 more 4 hours 32 minutes

No comments

Travel & Geography

481

National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 03

National Geographic Magazine Volume 3, articles published in 1891 and 1892. South America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubbard Geography of the Land: Annual Report by Vice-President Herbert G....

Leni and 11 more 11 hours 17 minutes National Geographic Magazines

No comments

Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances

*Non-fiction

432

John Charles van Dyke - Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances

The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. «What land can equal the desert with its wide plains, its grim mountains, and...

Sue Anderson 5 hours 56 minutes

No comments

Travel & Geography

482

Henry Fielding - Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon

Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights of his age. It was to be his last work, as his failing health proved unable...

James E. Carson 5 hours 17 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

450

Isabel Ostrander - Anything Once

An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some apparent 'rules' during the journey, while Lou seemed in need of better...

Roger Melin 3 hours 3 minutes

No comments

Sports & Recreation

399

Henry Festing Jones - Diversions in Sicily

Samuel Butler's biographer dedicates his urbane account of the culture and entertainments of rural Sicily to the unborn son of his guide to them. (Summary by R. S. Steinberg)

R. S. Steinberg 6 hours 8 minutes

No comments

Travel & Geography

434

Sir Henry W. Lucy - East by West, Vol. 2

East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883, within two or three decades of the American Civil War, the Indian...

Ruth Golding 9 hours 30 minutes East by West

No comments

*Non-fiction

503

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1

Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Francisco from where he cycled to Boston to take a steamer to England. Crossing...

Availle and 9 more 22 hours 29 minutes

No comments

New

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

Show all