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By: Henry James (1843-1916) | |
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A Little Tour of France | |
The Point of View | |
Italian Hours
A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2 | |
By: Henry John Whitfield (1808-1855) | |
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Scilly and its Legends
A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief diversions into period racism. -Summary by Timothy Ferguson |
By: Henry Pearson [Editor] Gratton | |
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As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home |
By: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) | |
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Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers |
By: Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) | |
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Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit |
By: Henry Vizetelly | |
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California
Vizetelly, writing under the pseudonym J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, recalls an expedition to California he took between 1847-1848 . Originally, he planned to enlist as a surgeon for the US Army during the Mexican war, but conflicts had ended by the time he applied. In a quick change of plans, he joined a group of prospectors on their way to the newly found gold fields of California. While he might not find service in the military, his training as a physician made him a valuable addition to the ragtag team of explorers... |
By: Henry W. Lucy (1845-1924) | |
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Faces and Places
Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter To Those About to Become Journalists rings as true today as when it was written.The first article, “Fred” Burnaby, includes a lively account of a balloon trip, while Night and Day on the Cars in Canada and Easter on Les Avants relate Lucy’s experiences of rail travel at that time. Other travel tales (A Night on a Mountain, Mosquitoes and Monaco, and Oysters and Arcachon) provide an insight into the Victorian Englishman’s attitude to Europe... | |
East by West: a Journey in the Recess
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 during the parliamentary recess in 1883. Lucy was one of the most influential journalists of his day and, as "Toby M.P.", a noted humorist in Punch magazine. His acute powers of observation and light touch make this a most engaging book. It is a fascinating insight into the Englishman's travels abroad within two decades of the American Civil War and the end of Japanese isolationism... |
By: Henry William Herbert (1807-1858) | |
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Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago |
By: Herbert Adams Gibbons (1880-1934) | |
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Riviera Towns |
By: Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan (1870-1948) | |
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The Naples Riviera |
By: Herman Melville (1819-1891) | |
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Omoo |
By: Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821) | |
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Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I | |
Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century
Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Lynch Piozzi who, during her first marriage to Henry Thrale, was the hostess and friend of many of her famous contemporaries including Dr Johnson and Fanny Burney. The vivid and personal "Observations and Reflections" was first published in 1789. - Summary by barbara2 |
By: Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) | |
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The Path to Rome |
By: Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) | |
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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. That is only relatively true. Just now, when we thought there was practically no portion of the earth's surface still unknown, when the discovery of a single lake or mountain, or the charting of a remote strip of coast line was enough to give a man fame as an explorer, one member of the daredevil explorers' craft has "struck it rich... |
By: Horace Greeley (1811-1872) | |
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Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. |
By: Horace Kephart (1862-1931) | |
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book of camping and woodcraft : a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness
In the Introduction to Camping and Woodcraft, Horace Kephart wrote: “My one aim in writing this little book is to make it of practical service to those who seek rest or sport in the wilderness, or whose business calls them thither.” The author further described the content of this book: “In the following chapters I offer some suggestions on outfitting, making camps, dressing and keeping game and fish, camp cookery, forest travel, how to avoid getting lost, and what to do if one does get lost,... |
By: Hudson Stuck (1863-1920) | |
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Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska |
By: Hugh Charles Clifford (1866-1941) | |
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In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula |
By: Hugh Jones (1669-1760) | |
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The Present State of Virginia |
By: Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) | |
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
The delightfully eccentric Doctor Dolittle, rendered immortal on screen by the gifted Rex Harrison, has remained a firm favorite with generations of children ever since he made his debut in an earlier novel, The Story of Doctor Dolittle. In his second outing titledThe Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, the maverick physician takes on a new assistant, Tommy Stubbins. The story is structured as a first person account given by Tommy, who is now a very old man. The boy who was the son of the village cobbler first meets Doctor Dolittle when he takes a hurt squirrel to the doctor for treatment... |
By: Hugh Macmillan | |
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Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood |
By: Ida Laura Pfeiffer | |
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A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
Ida Pfeiffer travelled alone in an era when women didn’t travel. She went first on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, then went on to Egypt and Italy. Understanding the difficulties a woman would face travelling alone and on a budget, she made a will before she left. Go she did, however; and upon her return she wrote this book. She used the proceeds to finance her next trip – six months in Iceland. |
By: Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) | |
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Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North |
By: Inez Haynes Gillmore (1873-1970) | |
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The Californiacs |
By: Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944) | |
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Roughing it De Luxe |
By: Irwin S. Cobb (1876-1944) | |
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Europe Revised
Irwin Cobb’s humorous Europe Revised is a travelogue and comedy almost in the style of Mark Twain. The dedication says it best, “To My Small DaughterWho bade me shed a tear at the tomb of Napoleon, which I was very glad to do, because when I got there my feet certainly were hurting me.” |
By: Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1876-1961) | |
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An African Adventure |
By: Isaac Taylor (1787-1865) | |
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Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers
In this little volume, Isaac Taylor takes us on a tour of Europe, anno 1824. We travel once around the entire continent, starting in England, through Scandinavia, Russia, down to Turkey, over the Alps, France, Spain, and back to England. The tour is made with poems and prose, and should be of interest to all listeners. - Summary by Carolin |
By: Isabel Florence Hapgood (1850-1928) | |
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Russian Rambles |
By: Isabel Savory | |
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In the Tail of the Peacock |
By: Isabella L. Bird (1831-1904) | |
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A 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 Mountains. A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains details this fascinating account of her travels through a series of letters written to her sister, Henrietta. These letters are filled with beautiful, vivid descriptions of the scenery, the people she encountered, the way of life, and a mountain man named Jim Nugent, that was as rough as they come, but a complete gentleman with Ms... | |
The 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 tribulations of the journeys are astute, if formed by her place and time in history. Adventures with pickpockets, omnibuses, cholera, and rat invested hotels deter her not. (Sibella Denton) | |
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to America, visiting relatives. Her first book, The Englishwoman in America was published anonymously two years later. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is compiled of the letters she sent to her sister during her 7 months sojourn in Japan in 1878. Her travels there took her from Edo (now called Tokyo) through the interior - where she was often the first foreigner the locals had met - to Niigata, and from there to Aomori... | |
Among the Tibetans
Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeavours were risky and dangerous even for men and large, better equipped parties. In "Among the Tibetans", Bird describes her tour through Tibet with her usual keen eye: From descriptions of the landscape and flora to the manners, customs and religion of the local people we get a fascinating account of a world long past. | |
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither | |
Korea and Her Neighbors
In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society only 2 years prior, describes her travels through Korea from 1894 - 1897 in her well-known style. She went on lengthy trips through the interior of what is today both North- and South Korea and vividly describes the landscapes, people and customs of the "Hermit Kingdom". Isabella's sojourn coincided with a time of great turmoil in Korea. Shortly after her arrival, the Japanese occupied the country, ostensibly to protect their expatriate community... |
By: Isabella Strange Trotter (1816-1878) | |
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First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers |
By: J. A. (John Arnold) Nicklin | |
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Dickens-Land |
By: J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) | |
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Letters from an American Farmer |
By: J. J. (John Jacob) Thomas (1841?-1889) | |
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West Indian Fables |
By: J. J. Smith | |
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In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 |
By: J. M. (James MacPherson) Le Moine (1825-1912) | |
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Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present |
By: J. O. Choules | |
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Young Americans Abroad – Vacation in Europe
It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with three teenaged students – James Robinson, George Vanderbuilt, and Weld French, who are forced to leave the fourth member of their blue-blooded quartet at home – and all four travelers promise to write to “Dear Charley”, Charles Duston, of later fame. The boys meet the Duke of Wellington, travel down the Rhine, and meet many friends along the way. While the letters are filled with some prejudice against the Catholic religion, they are a product of their time – a sometimes ignorant, but often dazzling, period of our history. |
By: J. Ross (John Ross) Browne (1821-1875) | |
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The Land of Thor |
By: Jack London | |
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The Cruise of the Snark
The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London’s 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of “surf-riding”, which he dubbed a “royal sport”, helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London writes: Through the white crest of a breaker suddenly appears a dark figure, erect, a man-fish or a sea-god, on the very forward face of the crest where the top falls over and down, driving in toward shore, buried to his loins in smoking spray, caught up by the sea and flung landward, bodily, a quarter of a mile... |
By: James Aitken Wylie (1808-1890) | |
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Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge |
By: James Baikie | |
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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 well researched and well written. It’s a fun book for everyone, and families especially will enjoy listening together. |
By: James Boswell (1740-1795) | |
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Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica |
By: James Bryce Bryce (1838-1922) | |
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Impressions of South Africa |
By: James Chalmers (1841-1901) | |
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Adventures in New Guinea |
By: James Cook | |
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A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World
Having, on his first voyage, discovered Australia, Cook still had to contend with those who maintained that the Terra Australians Incognita (the unknown Southern Continent) was a reality. To finally settle the issue, the British Admiralty sent Cook out again into the vast Southern Ocean with two sailing ships totalling only about 800 tons. Listen as Cook, equipped with one of the first chronometers, pushes his small vessel not merely into the Roaring Forties or the Furious Fifties but becomes the first explorer to penetrate the Antarctic Circle, reaching an incredible Latitude 71 degrees South, just failing to discover Antarctica. (Introduction by Shipley) |
By: James Dabney McCabe (1842-1883) | |
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Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City |
By: James David Gillilan | |
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Trail Tales |
By: James Edmund Vincent (1857-1909) | |
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Through East Anglia In A Motor Car
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 the more affluent sections of the population. The freedom, flexibility and speed that this modern invention provided to those who were wealthy enough to be able to afford to buy and to run one of these vehicles, meant that they were soon used for frequent social and pleasure purposes allowing both the travelling to and the exploration of different regions of the country... |
By: James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead (1853-1934) | |
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The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin |
By: James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) | |
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Recollections of Europe |
By: James Finn (-1872) | |
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Byeways in Palestine |
By: James H. Schmitz (1911-1981) | |
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The Winds of Time |
By: James Inglis (1845-1908) | |
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Our New Zealand Cousins
A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had made since the writer had been there twenty years earlier, encomiums on the differences between New South Wales and New Zealand, and the writer's thoughts on where the two colonies needed to progress in the areas of agriculture, mining, forestry and education. Chapter 20 outlines a brief visit to Hobart on the way home, while the Appendix covers some statistics on the forestry industry in New Zealand and concludes with descriptions of the eruption of Tarawera in June 1886 as reported by the Sydney newspapers. |
By: James Kennedy (1815-1899) | |
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Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 |
By: James McCrone Douie (1854-1935) | |
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The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir |
By: James Norman Hall | |
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Faery Lands of the South Seas
Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They later co authored “Mutiny on the Bounty”. This is a love story. A travelogue and an adventure rolled into one. This book just went into the public domain, so enjoy an early 20th Century look at paradise. |
By: James Oliver Curwood | |
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The Alaskan
This story opens with a young woman who voyages alone into the wilds of Alaska to escape her tragic past. It then continues on to a young man who passionately protects the pristine environment, people and way of life in this snowbound country. Finally, a greedy profiteer arrives in the narrative whose only aim is to fill his pockets. When these three characters encounter each other on the stark and snowy plains, it's a clash of ideals and the sparks begin to fly. The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood is one of his very engaging adventure romance conservationist stories and was an instant bestseller, like most of his books, when it was first published in 1923... |
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: James Otis (1848-1912) | |
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The Search for the Silver City A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan |
By: James Samuelson (1829-) | |
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Roumania Past and Present |
By: James Seaton Cockburn | |
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Canada for Gentlemen |
By: James T. Nichols (1865-?) | |
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Birdseye Views of Far Lands
Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of making contrasts with all classes of people in all sorts of places, in such a sympathetic way as to win their esteem and confidence, has been able to pick up as he has roamed over the face of the earth for a quarter of a century.The book is not a geography, a history, a treatise on sociology or political economy. It is a Human Interest book which appeals to the reader who would like to go as the writer has gone and to see as the writer has seen the conformations of surface, the phenomena of nature and the human group that make up what we call a "world... |
By: James W. S. Marr (1902-1965) | |
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Into the Frozen South
James Marr was a Boy Scout selected to go along with Sir Ernest Shackleton aboard the Quest in 1921 for the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition to Antarctica. This book provides a description of what would be Shackleton's last exploration due to his untimely death en route. - Summary by mleigh |
By: Jan Gordon (1882-1944) | |
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The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia |
By: Jasper Danckaerts (1639-) | |
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Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 |
By: Jean Webster (1876-1916) | |
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Wheat Princess
Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period, she may want to attract an aristocrat. He brings the title, she brings the money to support it. Her adventures in Rome are different than she anticipated. Rich and poor live side by side, and the author does her best to describe both walks of life vividly and truthfully. Jean Webster is the author of Daddy Long Legs and Dear Enemy. This particular novel would also please fans of Henry James and George Gissing. - Summary by Stav Nisser. |
By: Jeannie Gunn (1870-1961) | |
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We of the Never-Never
We of the Never Never is the second book written by Jeannie Gunn under the name of “Mrs Aeneas Gunn”. It is considered by many as a classic of Australian writing. The book was published as a novel but draws on the author’s own experience in settling on the Elsey Station way out in the "back blocks" of the Katherine region of the Northern Territories of Australia early in the 20th century. The primary concession to fiction was that she fictionalised the names of many of the real-life characters that featured in her life at the time, giving them names like "the Sanguine Scott", "the Fizzer", "the Quiet Stockman" and "the Dandy"... |
By: Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) | |
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Diary of a Pilgrimage
A possibly fictionalised account by the comic novelist Jerome K. Jerome of a trip to Germany that he undertook with a friend in order to see the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau. The journey takes in London, Dover, Ostend, Cologne, Munich, Oberau, Oberammergau and then back to London via Heidelberg. As one might expect from the author of 'Three Men in a Boat', much goes wrong along the way, including seasickness, strange food, stranger beds, misleading guidebooks, bewildering train timetables, and numerous cultural and linguistic misunderstandings. |
By: Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby (1842-1940) | |
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Viking Boys |
By: Joel Cook (1842-1910) | |
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England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel |
By: Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818-1889) | |
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Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests |