Discovery & Exploration Books

Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia

Charles Sturt

Narrative of an Expedition into Central AustraliaPerformed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia i..

The Thrall of Leif the Lucky - A Story of Viking Days

Ottilie A. Liljencrantz

THE Anglo-Saxon race was in its boyhood in the days when the Vikings lived. Youth's fresh fires burned in men's blood; the unchastened turbulence of youth prompted their crimes, and their good deeds w..

Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia

Charles Sturt

The completion of this Work affords me the opportunity I have long desired of thanking your Lordship thus publicly, for the kindness with which you acceded to my request to be permitted to dedicate it..

The Romance of the Colorado River

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons...

A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

Mina Hubbard

This 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..

My Arctic journal - a year among ice-fields and Eskimos

Josephine Diebitsch Peary

In reading the pages of this narrative it should be remembered that within sixty miles of where Kane and his little party endured such untold sufferings, within eighty miles of where Greely’s men one ..

The Cameroons

Albert Frederick Calvert

The establishment of the German East African protectorate forms a story that is intensely interesting, inasmuch as it reveals the duplicity of Teutonic methods in their relations with native races, Eu..

Thoughts on South Africa

Olive Schreiner

These papers, written by one who had for years lived among the Boers, sharing their daily life and understanding their language, of necessity attempt to delineate, not only the coarse external shell o..