Travel Books

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..

The Lake Regions of Central Africa - A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 2

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The moisture-bearing wind in this part of Africa is the fixed south-east trade, deflected, as in the great valley of the Mississippi and in the island of Ceylon, into a periodical south-west monsoon. ..

My Diary - North and South (vol. 1 of 2)

William Howard Russell

A book which needs apologies ought never to have been written. This is a canon of criticism so universally accepted, that authors have abstained of late days from attempting to disarm hostility by con..

The Flowers and Gardens of Madeira

Florence Du Cane

The very name of Madeira (or island of timber, as the word signifies) brings to the minds of most people a suggestion of luxuriant vegetation flourishing in a damp, enervating climate. The feelin..

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 ..

Motor Camping

John Cuthbert Long

There are many thousands of acres of free camping grounds in the national and state public playgrounds. In addition, nearly every town west of the Appalachians has its camp site, while on the Atlantic..