Travel

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.In every narrative, whether historical or biographical, authenticity is of the utmost consequence. Of this I have ever been so firmly persuaded, that I inscribed a former work to that person who was...

Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and CameroonsRelateth the various causes which impelled the author to embark upon the voyage. It was in 1893 that, for the first time in my life, I found myself in possession of five or six months which...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 7 Methods in American Deaf and Dumb AsylumsMethods in the Public SchoolsA Letter from a youth in PunjabHighly Educated ServiceA Damage to the CountryA Little Book from CalcuttaWriting Poor EnglishEmbarrassed by a Beggar GirlA Specimen...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 6 Benares a Religious TempleA Guide for Pilgrims to Save Time in Securing Salvation CHAPTER LII. A Curious Way to Secure SalvationThe Banks of the GangesArchitecture Represents PietyA Trip on the RiverBathers and their CostumesDrinking...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 5 God Vishnu, 108 NamesChange of Titles or Hunting for an HeirBombay as a KaleidoscopeThe Native's Man ServantServants' RecommendationsHow Manuel got his Name and his EnglishSatanA Visit from God CHAPTER XL. The Government House at...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 3 A Caller--A Talk about Old Times--The Fox Hunt--An Accurate Judgment of an Idiot--How We Passed the Custom Officers in Italy CHAPTER XXI. The "Weet-Weet"--Keeping down the Population--Victoria--Killing the Aboriginals--Pioneer Days in Queensland--Material for a...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 2 Close to AustraliaPorpoises at NightEntrance to Sydney HarborThe Loss of the Duncan DunbarThe HarborThe City of SydneySpring-time in AustraliaThe ClimateInformation for TravelersThe Size of AustraliaA Dust-Storm and Hot Wind CHAPTER X. The Discovery of...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Part 1 The PartyAcross America to VancouverOn Board the WarrimoSteamer Chairs-The Captain-Going Home under a CloudA Gritty PurserThe Brightest PassengerRemedy for Bad HabitsThe Doctor and the LumbagoA Moral PauperLimited SmokingRemittance-men. CHAPTER II. Change of CostumeFish, Snake,...

The Ne'er-Do-WellIt was a crisp November night. The artificial brilliance of Broadway was rivalled by a glorious moonlit sky. The first autumn frost was in the air, and on the side-streets long rows of taxicabs were standing, their motors blanketed, their chauffeurs threshing their...

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917 After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen, who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeyingsthe...

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume I - From San Francisco to TeheranScanner's Notes: This was scanned from an original edition, copyright 1887, 547 pages. It is as close as I could come in ASCII to the printed text. Scanning time: 15...

Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern QueenslandPORT ALBANY. Somerset, March 1st, 1865. Sir,My former reports to you having been, to a certain extent, necessarily taken up with matters of detail in reference to the formation...

The Aran Islands The geography of the Aran Islands is very simple, yet it may need a word to itself. There are three islands: Aranmor, the north island, about nine miles long; Inishmaan, the middle island, about three miles and a half across, and...

By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy To-morrow I shall leave by the Messina boat, which calls at Paola. It is now more than a twelvemonth since I began to think of Paola, and an image of the place has...

A Woman's Way Through Unknown LabradorThis book is the result of a determination on my part to complete Mr. Hubbard's unfinished work, and having done this to set before the public a plain statement, not only of my own journey, but of his as...

Among the TibetansThis header should be the first thing seen when anyone starts to view the etext. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need to understand what they may...

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers I am bound, I am bound, for a distant shore, By a lonely isle, by a far Azore, There it is, there it is, the treasure I seek, On the barren sands of a desolate creek....

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2When the explorer comes home victorious, everyone goes out to cheer him. We are all proud of his achievement -- proud on behalf of the...

Travellers' Stories It is the pleasant twilight hour, and Frank and Harry Chilton are in their accustomed seat by their mother's side in the old sofa, that same comfortable old sofa, which might have listened to many pleasant and interesting stories that will never...

A Ride Across PalestineCircumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, and compelled me to visit Bethany, the Mount of Olives, and the Church of the Sepulchre alone. I acknowledge myself to be a gregarious animal, or, perhaps, rather one of those...