Travel 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..

California and the Californians

David Starr Jordan

The Californian loves his state because his state loves him. He returns her love with a fierce affection that to men who do not know California is always a surprise. Hence he is impatient of outside c..

The Story of the Pony Express

Glenn D. Bradley

This little volume has but one purpose--to give an authentic, useful, and readable account of the Pony Express. This wonderful enterprise played an important part in history, and demonstrated what Ame..

A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country

T. D. Beasley

In California's imaginary Hall of Fame, Bret Harte must be accorded a prominent, if not first place. His short stories and dialect poems published fifty years ago made California well known the world ..

Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe

Charlotte M. Yonge

Travel with Little Lucy around the globe and learn a little geography and small bits about other cultures.There was once a wonderful fortnight in little Lucy's life. One evening she went to bed very t..

The Aran Islands

J. M. Synge

The geography of the Aran Islands is very simple, yet it may need a word to itself. There are three islands: Aranmor, the north island, about nine miles long; Inishmaan, the middle island, about three..

By the Ionian Sea

George Gissing

This is the third day of sirocco, heavy-clouded, sunless. All the colour has gone out of Naples; the streets are dusty and stifling. I long for the mountains and the sea. To-morrow I shall leave by th..

My Three Days in Gilead

Elmer U. Hoenshel

At last, after waiting twenty leaden-winged years from the time in which a fixed purpose was formed in me to visit the Orient, the realization came. The year that saw the fulfillment of my cherished a..