Discovery & Exploration Books

Gold Hunting in Alaska

Joseph Grinnell

The following story was originally written in pencil on any sort of paper at hand, and intended merely for "the folks at home." It will give the reader, be he man or boy, a hint as to how a young..

Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals

A. E. Pratt

This record of two years’ scientific work in the only country of the globe that has still escaped exploration purposely avoids the dry detail of a Natural History Report. During my brief residenc..

The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

Sir Richard Francis Burton

A tour through the domains of Uncle Samuel without visiting the wide regions of the Far West would be, to use a novel simile, like seeing Hamlet with the part of Prince of Denmark, by desire, omitted...

The Lake Regions of Central Africa - A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton

I had intended this record of personal adventure to appear immediately after my return to Europe, in May 1859. The impaired health, the depression of spirits, and worse still the annoyance of official..

An Account of Two Voyages to New-England

John Josselyn

This work is the latest of the author’s productions, and was not given to the public until 1674. It was reprinted by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1833, and may be found in the third volume ..

Samantha in Europe

Marietta Holley

Alice wuz about sixteen then, and Adrian wuz about five, and wuzn’t they happy! My hull heart went out to ’em, and mebby it wuz that love atmosphere that wropped ’em completely round that made ’em gro..

Father Thames

Walter Higgins

om its mouth inwards to London Bridge the Thames is not the Thames, for like many another important commercial stream it takes its name from the Port to which the seamen make their way, and it becomes..

Lente

Jac. P. Thijsse

Natuurlijk kwamen ons toen dadelijk in de gedachte de aardige boekjes van Heijmans en Thijsse: In Sloot en Plas, Hei en Dennen, enz. en de artikelen van Thijsse in het „Alg. Handelsblad”, en wij namen..