Discovery & Exploration Books

The Lure of the Labrador Wild

Dillon Wallace

The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi River - Lake Michikamau in Labrador and George River in Quebec..

Spinifex and Sand

David Wynford Carnegie

Spinifex and Sand, A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia is a personal narrative of The Hon. David Wynford Carnegie, an explorer and gold prospector in Wester..

Domestic Manners of the Americans

Frances Milton Trollope

Domestic Manners of the Americans is a travel literature written by Fanny Trollope, an English novelist and writer. This book is not only her best work but happened to be first book also.It's wor..

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville

Washington Irving

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville is a travel literature written by Washington Irving, an American short story writer, essayist, biographer and historian.Author's Introduction:WHILE ENGAGED in..

The Idler in France

Countess of Marguerite Blessington

The Idler in France is a travel literature written by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, who was an Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess. She became acquainted with Lord By..

The Cannibal Islands

R.M. Ballantyne

The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook.More than a hundred years ago, there lived a man who dwelt in a mud cottage in the county of York; his name was Cook. He was a poor, honest labourer—a farm servant. ..

Minnesota and Dacotah

C. C. Andrews

Introduction by Author:THE object of publishing these letters can be very briefly stated.During the last autumn I made a tour into Minnesota, upwards of a hundred and thirty miles north-west of St. Pa..

Australia Twice Traversed

Ernest Giles

Australia Twice TraversedThe Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 187..