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Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia George Kennan · 1870 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Challenging An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic. Shares Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

Journey Without Maps Graham Greene · 1936 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This is an account of a trip Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and… Shares Description and travel, Travel

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Description and travel, Travel with this book.

The Maine Woods Henry David Thoreau · 1803 · ★ 3.9 · 127p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The Maine Woods is a characteristically Thoreauvian book: a personal account of exploration, of exterior and interior discovery in a natural setting, conveyed in taut, workmanlike prose. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest--its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants--are valuable in themselves. But his impassioned protest against despoilment in the name… Shares Nature, Pictorial works, Description and travel, Travel

China Road Rob Gifford · 2007 · ★ 4.4 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.In this utterly surprising and deeply personal… Shares Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs, Nonfiction

The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies · 1884 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Challenging This book is a reprint of the following stories printed in the following publications: *Time*, *Longman's* *Magazine*, *The* *Graphic*, *The* *Standard*, *The* *Magazine* *of* *Art*, *The* *Gentleman's* *Magazine*, *The* *St.* *James's* *Gazette*, *The* *National* *Review*, *The* *Manchester* *Guardian*, and *The* *Pall* *Mall* *Gazette*. Shares Natural history, Nature, Description and travel, Travel

Bitter lemons Lawrence Durrell · 1957 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate With the publication of Justine Lawrence Durrell became, almost overnight, one of the most talked about, widely acclaimed novelists of the decade. Now, in Bitter Lemons, his focus has shifted from the world of his imagination to life itself. Writing in the exquisite poetic prose that critics have hailed as unequalled in contemporary literature, he tells the perceptive, often humorous story of his… Shares Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

The road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson · 2015 · ★ 4.0 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now he has traveled about Britain again, by bus and train and rental car and on foot, to see what has changed -- and what hasn't. Following a route he dubs the Bryson Line, from Bognor Regis… Shares Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs, Nonfiction

My first summer in the Sierra John Reid Muir · 1911 · ★ 4.1 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author Shares Natural history, Nature, Description and travel

Other Main Traveled Roads Hamlin Garland · 1910 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Frontier and pioneer life, Social life and customs with this book.

Red men and white Owen Wister · 1895 · ★ 3.7 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares Frontier and pioneer life, Social life and customs with this book.

Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach · 1905 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares Frontier and pioneer life, Social life and customs with this book.

The Tree Where Man Was Born

The Tree Where Man Was Born Peter Matthiessen · 1972 · 247p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 1. The tree where man was born -- 2. White highlands -- 3. Northwest frontier -- 4. Siringet -- 5. In Maasai -- 6. Rites of passage -- 7. Elephant kingdoms -- 8. Great caldron mountains -- 9. Red god -- 10. At Gidabembe. Shares Natural history, Pictorial works, Description and travel

Palmetto-leaves Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1873 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging After the Civil War, the Stowes bought a house on the St. Johns River near Mandarin, Florida. For several years, they spent the winters at their Florida home. In 1872, Stowe published Pametto Leaves describing the area, its people and wildlife. The book is organized as a series of articles and includes several ink sketches. It provides a unique view of north Florida and may have influenced Henry… Shares Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

Journey to the shores of the Polar sea, in 1819-20-21-22 John Franklin · 1823 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Northwest, Natural history, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Our Old Home Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1863 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of English scenery and life, especially those that are touched with the antique charm to which our countrymen are more susceptible than are the people among whom it is of native growth.” Shares Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883 · ★ 3.4 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) traveled to California in 1879 in pursuit of Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, the Oakland woman with whom he had fallen in love in France. The two were married in the spring of 1880 and honeymooned in a cabin at Silverado, a mining ghost town on Mt. St. Helena. In the next fourteen years, Mrs. Stevenson nursed her husband while he produced the verses, stories, and… Shares Zamorano 80, California, Description and travel, Travel

Domestic manners of the Americans Frances Milton Trollope · 1832 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Challenging When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed was a tragicomedy of illness, scandal and failed business ventures. Nevertheless, on her return to… Shares Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs, Nonfiction

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