Travel Books

Round the World

Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, and industrialist of Scottish extraction, known for his role as a major philanthropist. Carnegie's was the classic "rags to ric..

Le Speronare

Alexandre Dumas

Le Speronare by Alexandre Dumas is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfec..

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery

Filson Young

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery is biographical work written by Filson Young. The writing of historical biography is properly a work of partnership, to which public credit..

The Native Son

Inez Haynes Gillmore

The only drawback to writing about California is that scenery and climate—and weather even—will creep in. Inevitably anything you produce sounds like a cross between a railroad folder and a circus pro..

The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith

E. Boyd Smith

Pocahontas was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tri..

Een jaar in de Molukken

H. R. Roelfsema

Een jaar in de Molukken is the Indonesian travel book written by H. R. Roelfsema. The purpose of my trip was, briefly, to investigate the suitability of already applied concession sites on H..

South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition

Ernest Shackleton

South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition is a travel adventure written by Ernest Shackleton, a British polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one o..

The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash

John Henry Goldfrap

The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic is a juvenile fiction novel written by John Henry Goldfrap, a North American journalist and author of boys' books, participati..