Voyages & Travels Books
Riverside London; A Sketch-Book
Dorothy WoollardRiverside London; A Sketch-Book, by Dorothy E. G. Woollard.LONDON BRIDGE. LAMBETH BRIDGE.WATERLOO BRIDGE.CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE,BLACKFRIAR’S BRIDGE.ST. PAUL’S.ST. PAUL’S THE RIVER.ST PAUL’S FROM WATE..
Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage, 1684-7
Henri JoutelThe present volume, giving Joutel’s Journal of La Salle’s third and last voyage, is reprinted from the first English translation of 1714, of the original French edition of 1713.René Robert Cavelier, b..
Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals
A. E. PrattThis record of two years’ scientific work in the only country of the globe that has still escaped exploration purposely avoids the dry detail of a Natural History Report. During my brief residenc..
Samantha in Europe
Marietta HolleyAlice wuz about sixteen then, and Adrian wuz about five, and wuzn’t they happy! My hull heart went out to ’em, and mebby it wuz that love atmosphere that wropped ’em completely round that made ’em gro..
Wanderings in Three Continents
Sir Richard Francis BurtonBurton was a many-sided man. The following volume of posthumous essays reveals him in the aspect in which he was best known to the world—as a traveller and explorer. It will add comparatively little ..
The Story of Chalmers of New Guinea
Janet Harvey KelmanAMES CHALMERS was born sixty-five years ago at a little town in the West Highlands of Scotland. He was the son of a stonemason, but his home was close to the sea, and he was more eager to sail than to..
The Cruise of the Gyro-Car
Herbert StrangAmong the passengers who alighted from the train at the terminus of Shepperton, the little village near the Thames, one evening in early summer, was a young man differing noticeably, but in a way not ..