6 似ている本： ボンネビル大尉の冒険
アストリア：ロッキー山脈を越える事業の逸話
In 1811 a group of American traders built a fort at the mouth of the Columbia River, named Fort Astoria in honor of its financier, John Jacob Astor. Envisioned as the spur of a fur-trading empire, by 1813 the project was a business failure and the fort was surrendered to the British. But in its short life Astoria rendered incalculable benefits to public understanding of the Great Northwest. The…
共通テーマ：Fur trade, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel
カナダの奥地
The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity on The Backwoods of Canada, by Catherine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. Traill offers a vivid and honest account of her trip to North America and of her first two and a helf years living in the bush…
共通テーマ：Descriptions et voyages, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Travel
カリフォルニア・オレゴンの道
Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
共通テーマ：West, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Travel
西部初期の旅 1748-1846
A series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel: descriptive of the Indians and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement, Edited with notes, introduction, index, etc. The 32 volumes of reprints include 2 volumes of indexes. Some of the reprints are offered separately on this website, and…
共通テーマ：Fur trade, Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel
コロンブス伝
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean..... Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known…
共通テーマ：Explorers, Diaries, Description and travel, Travel
彼らの新婚旅行
From the book:They first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he followed her; and there the match was also broken off. Why it was broken off, and why it was renewed after a lapse of years, is part of quite a long love-story, which I do not think myself qualified to rehearse, distrusting my fitness for a sustained or involved…
共通テーマ：Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel, Biography & Memoir