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Across Mongolian Plains
Roy Chapman Andrews
24 days •
ⓘ 1921 • An account by the original Indiana Jones - Roy Chapman Andrews - as he travels through Mongolia and China gathering specimens and research.
Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead
20 days •
ⓘ 1928 • A landmark anthropological work detailing the youth of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands.
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
103 days •
ⓘ 1835 • Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville journeys through a new land, where the experiment of democracy has been put to the test for several centuries: America.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Jules Verne
29 days •
ⓘ 1863 • Explorer Dr. Samuel Fergusson sets out to travel across Africa - at the time still largely untraversed by Europeans - aboard a novel balloon.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
Isabella L. Bird
41 days •
ⓘ 1875 • A travelogue of British explorer Isabella Bird's journey through Hawaii in the late 19th century.
How I Found Livingstone
Henry Morton Stanley
48 days •
ⓘ 1871 • The firsthand account of the famous adventure through Africa to find one of the great explorers.
The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain
66 days •
ⓘ 1869 • A famous travel book following a group of Americans through Europe and the Holy Land.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Isabella L. Bird
23 days •
ⓘ 1879 • A travelogue of British explorer Isabella Bird's journey through Wyoming and Colorado in the late 19th century.
The Land of Little Rain
Mary Hunter Austin
14 days •
ⓘ 1903 • A collection of unforgettable essays and short stories on the American Southwest, from its sweeping landscapes to the people who call it home.
The Legends and Myths of Hawai'i
David Kalakaua
58 days •
ⓘ 1888 • A collection of Hawaiian history and folklore assembled by King Kalakaua, the penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Mary Wollstonecraft
17 days •
ⓘ 1796 • A travel memoir and record of Wollstonecraft’s strained relationship with Gilbert Imlay, as well as the last publication of her life.
The Life of a Fossil Hunter
Charles Hazelius Sternberg
22 days •
ⓘ 1909 • A firsthand account of the Bone Wars, a fierce competition for dinosaur fossils between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh in the 19th century American west.
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
50 days •
ⓘ 1883 • Mark Twain's memoir of his days as a steamboat pilot before the Civil War and travel book of his travels along the river after the war.
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
John Henry Patterson
23 days •
ⓘ 1907 • An account of the two lions who killed and consumed dozens of workers during the construction of a railway in Kenya.
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
Matthew Henson
11 days •
ⓘ 1912 • The thrilling memoir of Matthew Henson who traveled with Robert Peary on seven Arctic expeditions.
The Open Boat
Stephen Crane
4 days •
ⓘ 1897 • A semi-autobiographical retelling of Crane's experience being shipwrecked and stranded for days off the coast of Florida.
The Oregon Trail
Francis Parkman
41 days •
ⓘ 1847 • A first-person travelogue of the first segment of the Oregon Trail - through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas - including buffalo hunting with a group of Oglala Sioux.
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster
33 days •
ⓘ 1924 • A mysterious incident in the Marabar caves with British visitors puts Dr Aziz on trial, bringing to the surface racial and political tensions in an India straining under British rule.
The Road
Jack London
18 days •
ⓘ 1907 • London's autobiography of his time trying to survive as a hobo in one of the worst economic slumps in U.S. history: from hopping freight trains to joining Kelly's Army.
Sea and Sardinia
D.H. Lawrence
25 days •
ⓘ 1921 • Lawrence recounts his trip through Sicily to the interior of Sardinia alongside his wife.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T.E. Lawrence
85 days •
ⓘ 1926 • A dramatic memoir from "Lawrence of Arabia" including the Arab Revolt during the First World War.
South!
Ernest Shackleton
46 days •
ⓘ 1919 • The story of Shackleton's harrowing 1915 expedition to Antarctica in which 28 men fight to survive after being marooned on an ice flow.
Travels in West Africa
Mary Kingsley
60 days •
ⓘ 1897 • Defying Victorian norms for women, Mary Kingsley sets out alone to journey through Africa. There she befriends the local people and collects valuable plant and animal specimens for research.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau
38 days •
ⓘ 1849 • Thoreau describes a river trip he took with his brother John.
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
67 days •
ⓘ 1922 • A record of the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole from 1910-1913.
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