Travel Books

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..

Aspects of Nature, in Different Lands and Different Climates Vol 1 of 2

Alexander von Humboldt

The twofold aim of the present work (a carefully prepared and executed attempt to enhance the enjoyment of Nature by animated description, and at the same time to increase in proportion to the state o..

Return to Gone-Away

Elizabeth Enright

The Villa Caprice, the Blakes' new possession, was set a short distance beyond Gone-Away, surrounded by woods and a tangle of vine-woven hedges. It had belonged, many years before, to a strong-minded ..

The River of London

Hilaire Belloc

On the contrary, the note of the approach to London nowadays from the Lower Thames is a note peculiarly and strongly modern. It is as though the abnormal expansion of our perilous Industrialism in the..

White Mountain Trails

Winthrop Packard

Southerly from Chocorua summit the land was soused in the steam of spring. Chocorua Lake lay green at my feet, an emerald mirror of the world around it. To its right a little way Lonely Lake was a dar..

Forest Scenes in Norway and Sweden

Henry Newland

The author has enlarged upon this, in the faint hope of drawing attention to these matters. He would suggest that some sort of superintendence would not be altogether superfluous, and that it is not e..

Modern Whaling and Bear-Hunting

W. G. Burn Murdoch

The publication of the above-mentioned book, and lectures by Dr Bruce and Mr Burn Murdoch, revived both at home and abroad interest in the Antarctic regions, and in 1897 the Belgica expedition followe..