Voyages & Travels Books

Fighting the Whales

R. M. Ballantyne

A fatherless boy joins the crew of a whaling ship in order to earn a living for himself and his mother. Beyond being a fascinating depiction of a now-alien time, occupation, and culture, it's also a r..

Letters of Travel (1892-1913)

Rudyard Kipling

Three books of travel writing by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stories and the Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling (an Englishman born and raised in India) offers an interesting outsider's vi..

Le journal d'une pensionnaire en vacances

Noémie Dondel Du Faouëdic

Le journal d'une pensionnaire en vacances is a French voyages and travels book written by Noémie Dondel Du Faouëdic...

In the Wilderness

Charles Dudley Warner

In the Wilderness is a personal memoir by Charles Dudley Warner, Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: ..

Life in the Clearings versus the Bush

Susanna Moodie

Life in the Clearings versus the Bush is a travel literature written by Susanna Moodie, an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colo..

A Master Of Craft

W. W. Jacobs

Captain Flower, an ardent admirer of the fairer sex, takes full advantage of his sea travels around the world, wooing women wherever he goes. But his philandering ways finally catch up with him, and F..

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1

Jules Verne

The famous writer of great adventure stories Jules Verne wrote also several lesser known, but good non-fiction works. "Celebrated travels and travellers" tells the story of geographical discovery in t..

Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 1

Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle

Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 1 is a travel work written by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle, who was an officer of the British army active in Upper Canada.Very surprising it see..