LibriVox Audio Books Catalog (Page 2)

A non-fictional account of Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition to cross the Australian continent from south to north and then return. Containi…

Impresiones y paisajes

Read by Epachuko

Federico García Lorca

Libro de viajes de Federico García Lorca, donde recoge sus impresiones y pensamientos íntimos ante la contemplación de …

A Book of American Explorers

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson

This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the…

Columbus

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Joaquin Miller

This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller. This was the weekly poetr…

The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks from 25 August 1768-12 July 1771

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan

Joseph Banks

In this Journal, Joseph Banks records almost daily observations of the journey of the ship the Endeavour on the first of James Cook’s voyage…

The Last Secrets

Read by Steven Seitel

John Buchan

The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two dec…

A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

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Anna (Annie) Allnutt Brassey, Anna and Anna Brassey

Mrs. Brassey, (in future, Lady Brassey) describes the events and sights of her family's voyage around in the world in 1876-1877 ( Dovie Cros…

Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley

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John Gilmary Shea

"It has long been a desideratum to have in English the early narratives, of the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi. Marquette…

With Sack and Stock in Alaska

Read by Phil Schempf

George Broke

In 1888, George Broke with Harold Topham and William Williams, made the first exploration of the Alaskan Mt. St. Elias range, including the …

The Sea and the Jungle

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Henry Major Tomlinson

Considered one of the greatest travel narratives, The Sea and the Jungle is H.M. Tomlinson's firsthand account of the first journey of an En…

The Romance of Polar Exploration

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G. Firth Scott

While stories of the Polar explorers and their efforts to reach the Poles have been told again and again, the constant renewal of expedition…

The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Ver…

Read by Steve Gough

Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …

Into the Frozen South

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James William Slessor Marr and James W. S. Marr

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 …

The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543

Read by Phil Benson

John Leland

John Leland's 'Itinerary' was the product of several journeys around England and Wales undertaken between 1538 and 1543. The manuscript is m…

Travels in New Zealand with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, an…

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan

Ernst Dieffenbach

“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, o…

Gold Hunting in Alaska

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Joseph Grinnell

In 1898, naturalist, Joseph Grinnell joins a company of twenty men bound for Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, from California aboard the schooner Pen…

The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)

Read by Steven Seitel

Roald Amundsen

Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to ma…

The Lost Oases

Read by Steven Seitel

Ahmed Hassanein

This book was published in 1925. Oxford-educated Egyptian diplomat and geographic explorer, Hassanein Bey (Ahmad Muhammad Hassanayn), with t…

Travel Stories Retold From St. Nicholas

Read by David Wales

Various

St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-w…

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

Read by Zach Hoyt

Mina Benson Hubbard

Mina Benson Hubbard set out in 1905 on a 576 mile canoe journey across the interior of Labrador with the assistance of four guides. Her husb…

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