Travel

My Attainment of the Pole - Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar ControversyThis narrative has been prepared as a general outline of my conquest of the North Pole. In it...

Stevenson's Shrine: The Record of a PilgrimageI, a lover of the man, personally unknown to me, save through the potency of his pen, journeyed across the world in order to visit his grave, and to get into direct touch with his surroundings. The voyage...

Tripping with the Tucker TwinsAfter our boarding-school burned on that memorable night in March, it seemed foolish to start to school again so late in the season; at least it seemed so to the Tucker twins and me. Their father and mine were rather...

Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579 University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology Editors (Los Angeles): Ralph L. Beals, Franklin Fearing, Harry Hoijer Volume 42, No. 3, pp. 251-302, plates 18-21, 1 figure in text, 2 illus. Submitted by editors February...

Cities of the Dawn - Naples - Athens - Pompeii - Constantinople - Smyrna - Jaffa - Jerusalem - Alexandria - Cairo - Marseilles - Avignon - Lyons - DijonIn this new publication, consisting chiefly of articles which appeared in the Christian World, the...

Un Pélerin d'Angkor AU MAROC 1 vol. AZIYAD 1 vol. LE CHATEAU DE LA BELLE-AU-BOIS-DORMANT 1 vol. LES DERNIERS JOURS DE PKIN 1 vol. LES DSENCHANTES 1 vol. LE DSERT 1 vol. L'EXILE 1 vol. FANTME D'ORIENT 1 vol. FIGURES ET CHOSES QUI PASSAIENT...

The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] - Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the PeninsulaI arrived at Padron late in the evening, on my return from Pontevedra and Vigo. It was...

The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2] - Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the PeninsulaWhen George Borrow, in the month of November, 1835, steamed up the Tagus on his adventurous journey...

The Dusantes - A Sequel to "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine"When the little party, consisting of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine, Mr. Enderton, my newly made wife, and myself, with the red-bearded coxswain and the two sailor men, bade farewell...

あめりか物語 You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of receipt of the work. 1.F.3....

The Thistle and the Cedar of LebanonThe following pages were written in compliance with the solicitations of many esteemed friends, who were desirous that I should lay before the public an outline of my life and travels, and give to the English nation a...

A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese SeasWhen I first related to you the following strange and eventful episode, you advised me, inexperienced as I was, to write and publish it. I had never written a book in my life; but you...

To Cuba and BackThe steamer is to sail at one P.M.; and, by half-past twelve, her decks are full, and the mud and snow of the pier are well trodden by men and horses. Coaches drive down furiously, and nervous passengers put their heads...

JérusalemJrusalem!... Oh! l'clat mourant de ce nom!... Comme il rayonne encore, du fond des temps et des poussires, tellement que je me sens presque profanateur, en osant le placer l, en tte du rcit de mon plerinage sans foi! Jrusalem! Ceux qui ont pass...

Voyage en EspagneIl y a quelques semaines (avril 1840), j'avais laiss tomber ngligemment cette phrase: J'irais volontiers en Espagne! Au bout de cinq ou six jours, mes amis avaient t le prudent conditionnel dont j'avais mitig mon dsir et rptaient qui voulait l'entendre que...

From Sea to Sea; Letters of TravelIn these two volumes I have got together the bulk of the special correspondence and occasional articles written by me for the Civil and Military Gazette and the Pioneer between 1887-1889. I have been forced to this action...

Voyage of the Paper Canoe - A Geographical Journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5.The author left Quebec, Dominion of Canada, July 4, 1874, with a single assistant, in a wooden canoe eighteen feet in length,...

Wanderings in South AmericaPlutarch, the most famous biographer of ancient times, is of opinion that the uses of telling the history of the men of past ages are to teach wisdom, and to show us by their example how best to spend life. His...

Across Asia on a Bicycle - The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking This volume is made up of a series of sketches describing the most interesting part of a bicycle journey around the world,our ride across Asia. We were actuated...

Miss Cayley's AdventuresIt was my stepfather's death that drove me to it. I had never seen my stepfather. Indeed, I never even thought of him as anything more than Colonel Watts-Morgan. I owed him nothing, except my poverty. He married my dear mother when...