Journeys Through Time and Place

This collection features historical fiction that intertwines travel and adventure, taking listeners on journeys across various landscapes and eras. Each story offers a unique perspective on the characters' experiences as they navigate personal and societal challenges in different historical contexts.

The Wheat Princess

by Jean Webster Read by Celine Major 4.7
Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period, she may want to attract an aristocrat. He brings the title, she…

Madame Chrysantheme

by Pierre Loti Read by Peter Tucker 4.2
Pierre Loti (a nom de plume) was for many years an officer in the French Navy, giving him the opportunity to sample and analyze different na…

Penelope's English Experiences

by Kate Douglas Wiggin Read by Maria Therese 4.4
Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. In…

The Emancipated

by George Gissing Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in the oppressive social order of the Victorian era. A group of British expat…

Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand

by Henry Cadwallader Adams Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother and sister. He wants to be a clergyman and a farmer when he arrives there. This story…

A Voyage Round the World

by James Holman Read by LibriVox Volunteers
This is Volume 1 of 4 volumes. Some territories explored are Sierra Leone, Fernando Po, Calabar, and Prince Edward's Island. Standard clash …

The Boy Travellers on the Congo

by Henry Morton Stanley Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Frank and Fred share the sights they explore and the information they learn in Africa. As in other volumes, this fictionalized travelogue pr…

Post Haste

by R. M. Ballantyne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post …

The Wonderful Year

by William John Locke Read by Simon Evers 4.7
Martin Overshaw and Corinna Hastings are leading dull and unproductive lives in Paris, having fled humdrum England. They fall in with Fortin…

Dash for Khartoum

by G. A. Henty Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid…

A Prairie-Schooner Princess

by Mary Katherine Maule Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.7
The story of a Quaker family's journey from Ohio to Nebraska beginning in 1856. They encounter a mystery which leaves them an orphan girl wh…

Over the Hills and Far Away

by Charlotte Evans Read by Lewis Fletcher 3.8
One of the very first New Zealand novels, Over the Hills and Far Away is a heavily romanticised tale of a woman's journey from England to Ot…

Voyage Of The Scarlet Queen

by Gil Doud and Robert Tallman
The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen was a very creative, well-written, and produced series on Mutual from 1947 to 1948. It starred Elliott Lewis…

The Actress in High Life

by Susan Petigru King-Bowen Read by Celine Major 5
1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure. The characters for the most part are British officers. Lord Strathern sends f…

Meridiana

by Jules Verne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes th…

Somewhere Lies Land

by Philip Barker 5
Somewhere Lies Land is a captivating story of an adventurous voyage under sail to Australia in the year 1854. This production aired on BBC R…

The Voyage Out

by Virginia Woolf Read by Lynne T 4
Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voy…

The Secret City

by Hugh Walpole Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Written in the first person, The Secret City is a novel in three parts of a journey through post World War I Russia and the Revolution, duri…

The Road To Mandalay

by Bithia Mary Croker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Sophy Leigh and Douglas Shafto come to Burma on the same ship in 1912. They come for different reasons. Through them, we learn about British…