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Travel Collection: Short Non-fiction

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A collection of short, non-fiction travel memoirs or guides written in, or translated into, English. Material covered might be a museum, a v…

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 1

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Jules Verne


The famous writer of great adventure stories Jules Verne wrote also several lesser known, but good non-fiction works. "Celebrated trave…

An Inland Voyage

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Robert Louis Stevenson


As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first publi…

Tales of a Traveller

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Washington Irving


Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of peopl…

Home Geography for Primary Grades

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C. C. Long


Lessons and exercises for young children, exploring map and compass, mountains and rivers, trees and flowers, wind and rain, and more. (Summ…

Travels in Lancashire

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Various,William Roscoe


A collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on travels in Lancashire, England, with occasional sorties into adjacent counties. - Summary…

Going Abroad? Some Advice

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Robert Luce


Going abroad for a holiday or business is always exciting, but we can only imagine how exciting it would have been in 1900 to board a steame…

A Little Tour in France

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Henry James


A splendid example of travel writing at its best, in this description of six week tour in France -- from Touraine, down to Provence, then ba…

Over The Rocky Mountains To Alaska

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Charles Warren Stoddard


This 1899 travelogue is by one of the era’s most popular travel writers. A peek in how travel used to be. - Summary by David Wales

From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People

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Sven Hedin


This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europ…

Letters of Travel

Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)


Rudyard Kipling


Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stor…

The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known

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Joseph Jacobs


This book was first published in 1897. It's a short work, but it encompasses a vast subject—nothing less than determining the detailed geogr…

Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 6 - Famous Travels & Adventures

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Hamilton Wright Mabie


Historical vignettes of selected locations throughout the world and many of our early explorers as well. Fascinating travel adventures throu…

The Art of Travel

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Sir Francis Galton


The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from…

Birdseye Views of Far Lands

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James T. Nichols


Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of maki…

Heroines of Travel

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Frank Mundell


Heroines of Travel documents the bravery and fortitude of a number of Victorian-era women who showed that adventure and exciting experiences…

Za chlebem

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Henryk Sienkiewicz


Historia dwojga ludzi, ojca i córki, i ich podróży przez Atlantyk w poszukiwaniu lepszego życia w Stanach Zjednoczonych - Summ…

Travels in Brazil, Volume 2

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Henry Koster


A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…

The Broad Highway

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John Jeffery Farnol


Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the K…

Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World

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John Timbs


Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-lif…

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