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By: Annie Brassey (1839-1887) | |
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The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' |
By: Julia M. Grundy (b. 1874) | |
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Ten Days in the Light of Acca
This work is the story of a pilgrimage made over a hundred years ago by a group of American pilgrims. They were not headed for Canterbury, Rome or Jerusalem. Rather, they were headed for an historical but remote prison-city in a far corner of the Ottoman Empire. ‘Akká (Akko), now a city in Israel which attracts thousands of Bahá’í pilgrims each year, was but little thought of in that early period. It was originally the final place of exile and imprisonment for Bahá’u’lláh, a Persian nobleman who proclaimed that He was the Promised One of all religions and Messenger of God for this day and age... |
By: Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909) | |
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By Canoe and Dog-Train | |
Three Boys in the Wild North Land | |
Winter Adventures of Three Boys |
By: Madame de Staël (1766-1817) | |
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Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy |
By: Nell Speed (1878-1913) | |
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Molly Brown's Orchard Home |
By: John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon (1870-1949) | |
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In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country |
By: Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) | |
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Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries |
By: A. M. (Albert Moore) Reese (1872-) | |
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Wanderings in the Orient |
By: Donald Maxwell (1877-1936) | |
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A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden |
By: George Hamlin Fitch (1852-1925) | |
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The Critic in the Orient |
By: George Alfred Townsend (1841-1914) | |
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Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War |
By: W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch (1862-1939) | |
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From Edinburgh to India & Burmah |
By: Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (1787-1860) | |
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Travellers' Stories |
By: Frederick O'Brien (1869-1932) | |
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Mystic Isles of the South Seas. |
By: Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923) | |
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Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett |
By: Evelyn Raymond (1843-1910) | |
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Dorothy's Travels |
By: Henry Blackburn (1830-1897) | |
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Normandy Picturesque |
By: Norman Douglas (1868-1952) | |
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Old Calabria | |
Alone |
By: Edward Augustus Freeman (1823-1892) | |
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Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine |
By: Carl Lumholtz (1851-1922) | |
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Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 | |
Unknown Mexico
Unknown MexicoA Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan By Carl Lumholtz, M.A. PREFACE In the course of my travels in Australia, and especially after my arrival at Upper Herbert River in Northern Queensland, I soon perceived that it would be impracticable for me to hunt for zoological specimens without first securing the assistance of the natives of the country. Thus it came about... |
By: Felix Speiser (1880-1949) | |
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Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific |
By: Edward Hutton (1875-1969) | |
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Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition |
By: Thomas Wallace Knox (1835-1896) | |
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The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent |
By: John Hay (1835-1905) | |
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Castilian Days |
By: Edward Hutton (1875-1969) | |
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England of My Heart : Spring |
By: Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (-1940) | |
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A Girl's Ride in Iceland | |
Through Finland in Carts |
By: Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797-1858) | |
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Woman's Journey Round the World
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into several languages. "The Woman's Journey Around the World, from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, and Asia Minor" is the travel diary of the first of her two trips "around the world", following her successful trips to the Holy Land and to Iceland. |
By: Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) | |
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Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North |
By: Lucie Duff Gordon (1821-1869) | |
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Letters from the Cape |
By: Dillon Wallace (1863-1939) | |
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The Lure of the Labrador Wild
The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi River - Lake Michikamau in Labrador and George River in Quebec. His companions on this journey were his friend, New York lawyer Dillon Wallace and an Indian guide from Missannabie, George Elson. From the start, the expedition was beset with mistakes and problems. Instead of ascending the Naskaupi River, by mistake they followed the shallow Susan Brook. After hard long portaging and almost reaching Lake Michikamau, with food supplies running out, on September 15 at Windbound lake, they decided to turn back... |
By: Henry G. Nicholls (1825-1867) | |
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The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account |
By: William Walton (1843-1915) | |
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Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 |
By: Anne Warner (1869-1913) | |
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A Woman's Will | |
Seeing France with Uncle John |
By: Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary (1856-1920) | |
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The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club |
By: Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) | |
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City of the Sun
A dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-captain, about the latter's voyage to a utopian city. |
By: Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1853-1935) | |
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The Romance of the Colorado River |
By: James McCrone Douie (1854-1935) | |
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The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir |
By: George Kennan (1845-1924) | |
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Tent Life in Siberia |
By: Frances Trollope (1779-1863) | |
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Domestic Manners of the Americans
Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least notorious) dissection of manners and morals of the United States. The work was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, and particularly in America, where Trollope was reviled as representing the worst of old world prejudices the new republic (though the criticism did nothing to hurt sales).Accompanied by a son and two daughters, Trollope lived in the United States... |
By: Theodore Andrea Cook (1867-1928) | |
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The Story of Rouen |
By: Laura Dent Crane | |
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The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail |
By: James Orton (1830-1877) | |
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The Andes and the Amazon
This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedion of 1867 to the equatorial Andes and the Amazon. The route was from Guayaquil to Quito, over the Cordillera, through the forest to Napo, and, finally, on the Rio Napo to Pebas on the Maranon. Besides this record, the expedition - under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institute - collected samples of rocks and plants, and numerous specimen of animals. The scientists also compiled a vocabulary of local languages and produced a new map of equatorial America... |
By: Thomas Stevens (1854-1935) | |
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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 England, France, Central Europe and Asia Minor before he was turned back at the borders of Afghanistan. He returned part of the way to take a ship to Karachi, from where he crossed India. Another steam ship brought him from Calcutta to Hong Kong, and from Shanghai he set over to Japan, finally ending his journey after actually cycling 13... | |
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 2
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 England, France, Central Europe and Asia Minor before he was turned back at the borders of Afghanistan. He returned part of the way to take a ship to Karachi, from where he crossed India. Another steam ship brought him from Calcutta to Hong Kong, and from Shanghai he set over to Japan, finally ending his journey after actually cycling 13... |
By: Alice Bacon (1858-1918) | |
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Japanese Girls and Women
A clear and delightful peek into the world of Japanese girls and women of the late 1800s: their childhood, education, marriage and intimate family life. And it is done by someone who admires the immense resources, abilities and strength shown by all of these girls and women. The intricate customs that bind the society together and must be learned by every girl, such as the annual Doll ceremony are explained as well as the difficult life of a Japanese wife of this period. Life among the nobles and upper class in the courts and castles, something long hidden away, is explored... |
By: W. Basil Worsfold (1858-1939) | |
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A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore |
By: Anna Jameson (1794-1860) | |
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The Diary of an Ennuyée |
By: George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond (1846-1929) | |
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Peeps At Many Lands: Belgium |
By: Frank Fox (1874-1960) | |
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Bulgaria | |
Peeps At Many Lands: Australia |