Exploration
Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China
Read by Steve Cullen
Robert Fortune
An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside…
The Great White North
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Helen S. Wright
Sketches of those who braved the 'Great White North' in exploration and adventure. - Summary by KevinS
The Mystery of Easter Island: the Story of an Expedition
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Katherine Routledge
To this day, Easter Island, with its magnificent stone structures, remains an enigma. Katherine Routledge was part of an exhaustive archaeol…
Through Timbuctu and Across the Great Sahara
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Austin H. W. Haywood
Through Timbuctu and across the great Sahara: an account of an adventurous journey of exploration from Sierra Leone to the source of the Nig…
The Land of Midian (Revisited)
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Richard Francis Burton
The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken by the second Expedition, which, like the first, owes all to the liberality a…
The Life of Columbus
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Sir Arthur Helps
A factual account of the life of Christopher Columbus, from his early years, through discoveries in the New World, to his death in 1506. - S…
The Romance of Early Exploration
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Archibald Williams
The Author has been encouraged by the reception given to The Romance of Modern Exploration to write a companion volume on the adventures of …
The Last Journals of David Livingstone Vol. 1
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David Livingstone and Horace Waller
Known primarily as a missionary, David Livingstone headed into the wilds of Central Africa, intending to find the course of the Nile. Docume…
Gertrude Bell
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Ronald Bodley and Lorna Hearst
A highly engaging biography about a fascinating English woman who was most unusual for her time. An adventurous traveler who fell completely…
Auf Schneeschuhen durch Grönland Band 1
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Fridtjof Nansen
Eine Beschreibung des Autors von einer Expedition die Grönland von der Ost - zur Westküste durchquert, Teil 1.Zusammenfassung von …
The Romance of Modern Exploration
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Archibald Williams
It may be thought, perhaps, that exploration must be comparatively easy today. Less laborious no doubt it is in some details when Mandevill…
The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known, Version 2
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Joseph Jacobs
From the time of the Ancients to expeditions to the North Pole, Jacobs tells the adventure story of the discovery of the different lands and…
The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 1
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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…
Little Masterpieces of Science - Explorers
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George Iles
"The love of adventure, the expectation of the unexpected, have ever prompted men stout of heart, and ready of resource, to brave the p…
My Life at Sea
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William Caius Crutchley
The author began his life at sea in sailing-ships, in the age of the Black Ball liners, the Baltimore clipper-ships, and those perfect speci…
From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea
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Julius M. Price
A record of a voyage of discovery and adventure, beginning in Siberia and continuing to Northern China in the late 19th Century. - Summary b…
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the …
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Washington Irving
Benjamin Bonneville spent the years 1832 to 1835 on the adventure of a lifetime, leading an expedition of trapping, trading, and exploring i…
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
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John Hanning Speke
This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…
With Carson and Fremont
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Edwin L. Sabin
This is another book in the Trail Blazer Series. Being the adventures, in the years 1842–’43–’44, on trail over mountains and through desert…
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1
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Alfred Russel Wallace
The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels…