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A Voyage in a Balloon (1852)John Sartain (1808-1897) was an English artist and engraver skilled in the art of mezzo-tint who emigrated to the United States; in 1848 he purchased a one-half interest in the Union Magazine, a New York periodical, which he transferred...

A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven MonthsThis volume needs no elaborate preface. A general sketch of the voyage which it describes was published in the 'Times' immediately after our return to England. That letter is reprinted here as...

A Voyage of Consolation - (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') A Voyage of Consolation. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. His Honour, and a Lady. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. The Story of Sonny Sahib. Illustrated....

A Voyage round the World - A book for boysThe day arrived. A post-chaise stood in front of the old grey manor-house. I have it all before me. The pointed gablesthe high-pitched, dark weather; stained roofthe numberless latticed windowsthe moat, now dry, which had...

A Voyage Round the World - Being an account of a remarkable enterprize, begun in the year 1719, chiefly to cruise on the Spaniards in the great South ocean. Relating the true historical facts of that whole affair: testifyd by many imployd therein; and...

A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV The men-of-war in which Anson went to sea were built mostly of oak. They were painted externally yellow, with a blue stripe round the upper works. Internally, they were painted red....

A Voyage Round the World, from 1806 to 1812 - In Which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian islands, and the Sandwich Islands were Visited; Including a Narrative of the Author's Shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and His Subsequent Wreck in the Ship's Long-Boat; with...

A Voyage Round the World, Volume I - Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832 It is necessary to observe that this Work is designed to extend to 4 vols., to be published in regular succession; each Volume...

A Voyage to AbyssiniaThe following relation is so curious and entertaining, and the dissertations that accompany it so judicious and instructive, that the translator is confident his attempt stands in need of no apology, whatever censures may fall on the performance. The Portuguese traveller,...

A Voyage to Arcturus On a March evening, at eight oclock, Backhouse, the mediuma fast-rising star in the psychic worldwas ushered into the study at Prolands, the Hampstead residence of Montague Faull. The room was illuminated only by the light of a blazing fire....

A Voyage to Cacklogallinia - With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That CountryA VOYAGE TO CACKLOGALLINIA with a description of the religion, policy, customs and manners of that country By Captain Samuel Brunt reproduced from the original edition, 1727,...

A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699The favourable reception my two former volumes of voyages and descriptions have already met with in the world gives me reason to hope that, notwithstanding the objections which have been raised against me by prejudiced...

A voyage to Spitzbergen - containing an account of that country, of the zoology of the North; of the Shetland Islands; and of the whale fisheryThe Journal I kept when on board the Resolution in 1806, is taken as the basis of the subsequent...

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 - Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and...

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 - Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and...

A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora The following is little more than a diary of a voyage made by me on the whaler Aurora of Dundee in 1884. I cannot imagine its being read by many, as the subject can only...

A Voyage to the Moon - With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other LunariansThe Brahmin and Atterley prepare for their voyage Description of their travelling machineIncidents of the voyageThe appearance of the earth;...

A Voyage to the Moon La terre me fut importune Le pris mon essort vers les Cieux. l'y vis le soleil, et la lune. Et maintenant J'y vois les Dieux ("All weary with the earth too soon, I took my flight into the skies,...

A Voyage to the South Sea - Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board...

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2On the 6th, being the day after leaving Ulietea, at eleven o'clock a.m., we saw land bearing N.W., which, upon a nearer approach, we found to be a low reef island about four...