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By: Mark Twain (1835-1910) | |
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Roughing It
The semiautobiographical travel memoir records Twain’s, more or less, personal journey across the Wild West in search of adventure while exploring variable locations. Accompanying his brother on what becomes a trip of a lifetime, the young Samuel Clemens finds himself in many different vocational roles as he explores and observes the magnificence of the American West. Not refraining from the usual social commentary, Twain directs criticism on various social and moral issues which he approaches through his sly and witty style... | |
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a “revolutionary” typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2 million in 2005) he undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895, a route chosen to provide numerous opportunities for lectures in the English language... | |
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. It contains fascinating descriptions of Bermuda the island, and some of its people as well as an explanation of why Bermuda's houses are "so white". | |
By: Marmaduke William Pickthall (1875-1936) | |
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Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 |
By: Martha Summerhayes (1844-1926) | |
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Vanished Arizona |
By: Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) | |
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Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party |
By: Mary E. (Mary Evarts) Anderson (1838-1905) | |
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Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California |
By: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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The Green Door |
By: Mary H. Kingsley | |
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Travels in West Africa
Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and its people. Kingsley was an outspoken critic of European colonialism, a champion for indigenous customs, and a dedicated campaigner for a revised British policy which supported traders and merchants over the needs of settlers and missionaries. Her adventures were extraordinary and fascinating. Among other things she fought with crocodiles, fell into native spear traps and was caught in a tornado on the slopes of Mount Cameroon... |
By: Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) | |
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The Land of Little Rain
The Land of Little Rain is a book of sketches which portray the high desert country of southern California, where the Sierras descend into the Mojave Desert. Mary Austin finds beauty in the harsh landscape: "This is the sense of the desert hills--that there is room enough and time enough. . . The treeless spaces uncramp the soul." Her story begins with the water trails that lead toward the few life giving springs--the way marked for men by ancient Indian pictographs. Life and death play out at these springs... |
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) | |
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Tenting To-Night; A Chronicle Of Sport And Adventure In Glacier Park And The Cascade Mountains
This is the second of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park, and this book also deals with the Cascade Mountains (The other is entitled Through Glacier Park). Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and articles, though she is most famous for her mystery stories. The region that became Glacier National Park was first inhabited by Native Americans and upon the arrival of European explorers, was dominated by the Blackfeet in the east and the Flathead in the western regions. |
By: Mary Stuart Boyd (-1937) | |
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A Versailles Christmas-Tide |
By: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) | |
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Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Published in 1796, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-century British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. The twenty-five letters cover a wide range of topics, from sociological reflections on Scandinavia and its peoples to philosophical questions regarding identity. Published by Wollstonecraft's career-long publisher, Joseph Johnson, it was the last work issued during her lifetime. Wollstonecraft undertook her tour of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark in order to retrieve a stolen treasure ship for her lover, Gilbert Imlay... |
By: Maturin Murray Ballou (1820-1895) | |
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Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands | |
Aztec Land | |
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months |
By: Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923) | |
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Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett |
By: May Kellogg Sullivan | |
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A Woman Who Went to Alaska
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have had the pleasure of visiting Alaska via a luxurious cruise ship, where we enjoyed gourmet meals, amazing entertainment, and a climate-controlled environment. It's easy to also book a land package that enables you to see more of the country by train.Imagine what it was like to visit the same wild, untamed countryside in 1899. Instead of boarding a sleek, stylish cruise ship, you travel for weeks on a steamer... |
By: Mayne Reid (1818-1883) | |
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The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North | |
The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness | |
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt | |
The Lone Ranche | |
Ran Away to Sea |
By: Milburg F. Mansfield (1871-) | |
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The Automobilist Abroad | |
The Cathedrals of Northern France |
By: Minerva Brace Norton (1837-) | |
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In and Around Berlin |
By: Morley Roberts (1857-1942) | |
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A Tramp's Notebook |
By: Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (-1940) | |
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A Girl's Ride in Iceland | |
Through Finland in Carts |
By: Mrs. Cecil Hall | |
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A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba
The nineteenth century was marked by intense colonization by countries like Britain, France, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands. Initially, the pioneering efforts were made by men who battled unfamiliar terrain to create territories that they marked out as their own, while their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters kept the home and hearth in their native land. However, with travel becoming more common and family life assuming more importance, the women too began to travel to the four corners of the earth... |