Exploration
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, July 1899.It includes the following articles:Physiography of the Nicaragua …
The Third Voyage of James Cook
Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…
Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation
"The [Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee] shall conduct an independent review of ongoing U.S. human space flight plans a…
The Romance of Modern Exploration
It may be thought, perhaps, that exploration must be comparatively easy today. Less laborious no doubt it is in some details when Mandevill…
Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures
Gertrude Bell traveled extensively in the Middle East in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, studying the archaeology and ant…
Adventurers of the Far North
This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This volume describes the explorers who braved the Canadian Arctic in search of the No…
In the Andamans and Nicobars
A glimpse of the indigenous people, rich flora and fauna and the beauty of the islands as recorded by a zoologist, which are fast depleting …
Horizons West
Horizons West is a captivating radio docu-drama that explores the historic Lewis and Clark expedition. This engaging program brings to life …
Amurath to Amurath
Gertrude Bell was a renowned explorer and chronicler of the Middle East. In this book, she details a five month journey, spanning a period o…
Lapérouse
Biography of the eighteenth century French navigator Lapérouse. - Summary by Barbara Baker
American Trail
The American Trail was originally broadcast in 1953 as a 13 part serial. This series chronicles American history, including the exploration …
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the September Number.It includes the following articles:Modification of the Great …
Short Nonfiction Collection
"Fine experience lies at one's own doorstep" writes Raymond S. Spears, suggesting that boating on the Mississippi River offers &qu…
Michigan Historical Collections
The Michigan Historical Society solicited accounts by Michigan pioneers about the early settlement of various locations, or early developmen…
Stories of South Pole Adventure
The famous search for the North-West Passage led many daring pioneers to penetrate into the unknown and to brave the dread perils of the Arc…
Four Months in a Sneak-Box
The kind reception by the American press of the author's first journey to the great southern sea, and its republication in Great Britain and…
Im Herzen von Afrika
Schweinfurth trat 1868 im Auftrag der Humboldt-Stiftung in Berlin eine große Reise nach Afrika an. 1869 reiste er von Khartum aus nila…
The Land of Midian
The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken by the second Expedition, which, like the first, owes all to the liberality a…
Notes on The Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk
The Broads area of Norfolk and Suffolk is in the East Anglian region of England. It is the location of Britain's third largest inland waterw…
Reise durch den Stillen Ozean
Max Buchner war ein deutscher Arzt, Ethnograph und Forschungsreisender. Im Jahr 1875 brach er zu einer Weltreise auf, die er als Schiffsarzt…