Travel

Returning HomeIt is generally supposed that people who live at home,good domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, and who keep the parlour hearth-rug ever warm,it is generally supposed that these are the people who value home the most, and best appreciate all...

An Unprotected Female at the PyramidsIn the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of mysterious reality as that of an Oriental city. We knew it was actually there, but had such vague notions of its...

Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and ThibetMore than a year and a half had been spent in the hottest parts of the plains of India, and another dreaded hot season was rapidly making its approach, when, together with a brother officer, I applied...

Five Weeks in a Balloon - Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen Five Weeks in a Balloon is, in a measure, a satire on modern books of African travel. So far as the geography, the inhabitants, the animals, and the features...

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2This 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...

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1This 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...

Drake's Great Armada Nearly five years elapsed between Drake's return from his Famous Voyage and the despatch of the formidable armament commemorated in the following pages. During the last of these years the march of events had been remarkably rapid. Gilbert, who had been...

Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion All the journeyings I had ever done had been purely in the way of business. The pleasant May weather suggested a novelty namely, a trip for pure recreation, the bread-and-butter element left out. The Reverend said he...

Roughing It This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than...

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World The PartyAcross America to VancouverOn Board the WarrimoSteamer ChairsThe CaptainGoing Home under a CloudA Gritty PurserThe Brightest PassengerRemedy for Bad HabitsThe Doctor and the LumbagoA Moral PauperLimited SmokingRemittance-men. Change of CostumeFish, Snake, and Boomerang StoriesTests of...

Sir Francis Drake Revived Sir Francis Drake, the greatest of the naval adventurers of England of the time of Elizabeth, was born in Devonshire about 1540. He went to sea early, was sailing to the Spanish Main by 1565, and commanded a ship under...

Little Travels and Roadside Sketches . . . I quitted the "Rose Cottage Hotel" at Richmond, one of the comfortablest, quietest, cheapest, neatest little inns in England, and a thousand times preferable, in my opinion, to the "Star and Garter," whither, if you go...

The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 - The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature CHAPTER XXI. THE MOLUCCASTERNATE. CHAPTER XXII. GILOLO. CHAPTER XXIII. TERNATE TO THE KAIOA ISLANDS AND BATCHIAN. CHAPTER XXIV....

The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 - The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature My readers will naturally ask why I have delayed writing this book for six years after my return;...

The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment I did not plan when I began writing these chapters to make an entire book, but only to put down the more or less unusual impressions, the events and adventures, of certain quiet pilgrimages in country roads....

The Naturalist on the River AmazonsHaving been urged to prepare a new edition of this work for a wider circle than that contemplated in the former one, I have thought it advisable to condense those portions which, treating of abstruse scientific questions, presuppose a...

The PatagoniaThe houses were dark in the August night and the perspective of Beacon Street, with its double chain of lamps, was a foreshortened desert. The club on the hill alone, from its semi-cylindrical front, projected a glow upon the dusky vagueness of the...

Italienische Reise — Band 2Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...

Italienische Reise — Band 1Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...

Gala-Days Once there was a great noise in our house,a thumping and battering and grating. It was my own self dragging my big trunk down from the garret. I did it myself because I wanted it done. If I had said, "Halicarnassus, will you...