Travel

Voyage of the LiberdadeThis literary craft of mine, in its native model and rig, goes out laden with the facts of the strange happenings on a home afloat. Her constructor, a sailor for many years, could have put a whole cargo of salt, so...

Genio y figuraEn tres distintas y muy apartadas pocas de mi vida, peregrinando yo por diversos pases de Europa y Amrica, o residiendo en las capitales, he tratado al vizconde de Goivo-Formoso, diplomtico portugus, con quien he tenido amistad afectuosa y constante. En nuestras...

The River and IThe following account of a youthful adventure was written during the winter of 1908, ran as a serial in Putnam's Magazine the following year, and appeared as a book in 1910, five years before "The Song of Hugh Glass," the first...

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. - To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. In presenting these volumes to the public, the editor...

Reis in Nepal - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1887De zending in het belang der archeologische studin, mij door den minister van Openbaar Onderwijs opgedragen, bracht van zelve mede, dat de minst bekende streken van Indi achtereenvolgens door mij werden bezocht. Geen dezer landstreken...

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring CountriesWILLIAM GRIFFITH, Esq., the youngest son of the late Thomas Griffith, was born on the 4th of March 1810, at his fathers residence at Ham Common, near Kingston-upon-Thames, in the county of Surrey....

Krakatau en de Straat Soenda - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1886De herinnering aan de ontzettende ramp, die in Augustus 1883 het eiland Krakatau en de naastbij gelegen kusten van Java en Sumatra getroffen heeft, iszoo als het altijd gaatdoor den stroom van latere...

Un hiver à MajorqueCe livre porte sa date dans une lettre ddicace mon ami Franois Rollinat, et sa raison d'tre dans les rflexions qui ouvrent le chapitre IV; je ne saurais que les rpter: Pourquoi voyager quand on n'y est pas forc? Aujourd'hui, revenant...

The Art of Travel; Or, Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Preface Preparatory Enquiries Organising an Expedition Outfit Medicine Surveying Instruments Memoranda and Log-Books Measurements Climbing and Mountaineering Cattle Harness Carriages Swimming Rafts and Boats Fords and Bridges Clothing Bedding Bivouac Huts Sleeping-Bags...

Op SamoaGedurende een reeks van jaren was ik op het kantoor van den heer Andreas Mertel werkzaam geweest en reeds tot tweeden boekhouder opgeklommen, toen de chef van het huis op een goeden dag zijn bedienden kwam mededeelen, dat hij voornemens was de zaak...

The RoadThere is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do want to...

White Shadows in the South SeasThere is in the nature of every man, I firmly believe, a longing to see and know the strange places of the world. Life imprisons us all in its coil of circumstance, and the dreams of romance that color...

The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and...

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II - From Teheran To YokohamaThe season of 1885-86 has been an exceptionally mild winter in the Persian capital. Up to Christmas the weather was clear and bracing, sufficiently cool to be comfortable in the daytime,...

The Motor Maids in Fair Japan 1913 The four famous travelers and their chaperone, Miss Helen Campbell, were always off somewhere in the red motor car. If they were not making a voyage to England with the "Comet" stored in the hold of the...

English Travellers of the RenaissanceAmong the many didactic books which flooded England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were certain essays on travel. Some of these have never been brought to light since their publication more than three hundred years ago, or been mentioned...

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to MexicoThis is a simple narrative of our recent photographic trip down the Green and Colorado rivers in rowboatsour observations and impressions. It is not intended to replace in any way the books published by others covering a...

The New NorthIt is customary to write a preface. Mine shall be short. Out of a full heart, I wish to thank all the splendid people of the North who, by giving me so freely information and photographs, and chapters out of their own...

Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a CenturyI think it would be advisable for me to state at the outset that these reminiscences are entirely devoid of sensational elements, in order to prevent any possible disappointment and remove from the minds of those, and...

Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile - Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" Title: Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Subtitle: Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New...