Travel Books

Granada and the Alhambra

Albert Frederick Calvert

Granada and the Alhambra: A brief description of the ancient city of Granada, with a particular account of the Moorish palace.The Alhambra may be likened to an exquisite opera which can only be apprec..

Picturesque Spain - Architecture, landscape, life of the people

Kurt Hielscher

The Spaniards have coined a proud sentence: “Quien no ha visto Granada, no ha visto nada!” He who has not seen Granada has seen nought! And I should like to add: He who has seen Granada and the Alhamb..

Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila & Zaragoza

Albert F. Calvert

The six cities of Spain which form the subject of the following pages are little known to English travellers. Yet no one who would understand the country can afford to pass them by. Not only are they ..

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..

The Alhambra and the Kremlin

Samuel Irenæus Prime

The Alhambra is a type of the South. The Kremlin is a symbol of the North. Both of them are fortresses enclosing palaces: the glory of Spain in ruins, the pride of the North in its strength and beauty..

In the wake of the buccaneers

Alpheus Hyatt Verrill

I had started forth on a novel journey, a trip I had long wanted to take—a cruise in the wake of the buccaneers. Many a time I had traversed the Caribbean, steaming from port to port of those island g..

A Journey of a Jayhawker

W. Y. Morgan

The Arabic turned away from the dock at 4.30 in the afternoon of May 25, and steamed slowly and majestically down the harbor and out toward the ocean with a half-dozen little pilot-boats and revenue c..

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..