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Across Mongolian Plains
Roy Chapman Andrews
24 days •
ⓘ 1921 • An account by the original Indiana Jones - Roy Chapman Andrews - as he travels through Mongolia and China gathering specimens and research.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
Isabella L. Bird
41 days •
ⓘ 1875 • A travelogue of British explorer Isabella Bird's journey through Hawaii in the late 19th century.
How I Found Livingstone
Henry Morton Stanley
48 days •
ⓘ 1871 • The firsthand account of the famous adventure through Africa to find one of the great explorers.
The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain
66 days •
ⓘ 1869 • A famous travel book following a group of Americans through Europe and the Holy Land.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Isabella L. Bird
23 days •
ⓘ 1879 • A travelogue of British explorer Isabella Bird's journey through Wyoming and Colorado in the late 19th century.
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Mary Wollstonecraft
17 days •
ⓘ 1796 • A travel memoir and record of Wollstonecraft’s strained relationship with Gilbert Imlay, as well as the last publication of her life.
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
50 days •
ⓘ 1883 • Mark Twain's memoir of his days as a steamboat pilot before the Civil War and travel book of his travels along the river after the war.
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
John Henry Patterson
23 days •
ⓘ 1907 • An account of the two lions who killed and consumed dozens of workers during the construction of a railway in Kenya.
The Oregon Trail
Francis Parkman
41 days •
ⓘ 1847 • A first-person travelogue of the first segment of the Oregon Trail - through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas - including buffalo hunting with a group of Oglala Sioux.
Roughing It
Mark Twain
57 days •
ⓘ 1872 • A semi-autobiographical account of Twain's travels and adventures through the American west during the 1860s.
Sea and Sardinia
D.H. Lawrence
25 days •
ⓘ 1921 • Lawrence recounts his trip through Sicily to the interior of Sardinia alongside his wife.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T.E. Lawrence
85 days •
ⓘ 1926 • A dramatic memoir from "Lawrence of Arabia" including the Arab Revolt during the First World War.
South!
Ernest Shackleton
46 days •
ⓘ 1919 • The story of Shackleton's harrowing 1915 expedition to Antarctica in which 28 men fight to survive after being marooned on an ice flow.
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
29 days •
ⓘ 1889 • A hilarious recounting of three men's (not to mention the dog!) troublesome journey along the Thames from Kingston to Oxford and back.
The Tragedy of the Korosko
Arthur Conan Doyle
19 days •
ⓘ 1898 • A group of Europeans sailing up the River NIle in Egypt are attacked by Dervish warriors in this late 19th commentary on Imperialism and Islam.
Travels in West Africa
Mary Kingsley
60 days •
ⓘ 1897 • Defying Victorian norms for women, Mary Kingsley sets out alone to journey through Africa. There she befriends the local people and collects valuable plant and animal specimens for research.
The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
67 days •
ⓘ 1922 • A record of the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole from 1910-1913.
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