18 books like A diary in America

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Backwoods of Canada Catherine Parr Traill · 1836 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Challenging 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… Shares: Canada, Indians of North America, Description and travel, Travel

The road to Little Dribbling Bill Bryson · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 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: Civilization, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

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

What I saw in America Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1922 · 111p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Like many writers and thinkers of his era, British author G. K. Chesterton toured the United States to get a clearer sense of the country's culture and zeitgeist. The collection What I Saw in America offers Chesterton's impressions of the U. S. in the early twentieth century. Part travelogue, part cultural critique, and part historical analysis, this unique volume is a must-read for Chesterton… Shares: Civilization, Description and travel, United States, Travel

Impressions of America during the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 Power, Tyrone · 1836 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Slavery, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Samuel Johnson · 1775 · ★ 3.4 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Demanding In "A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland," Samuel Johnson embarks on a rich narrative that intertwines travelogue with philosophical reflection. Written in 1775, this work documents Johnson's exploration of the Scottish Highlands alongside his companion James Boswell. The text is characterized by Johnson's keen observations, eloquent prose, and a blend of personal anecdote and… Shares: Diaries, Civilization, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

The Hudson Bay Company Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1848 · 189p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The author's first-hand account of the first 3 or 4 years of his career with the Hudson's Bay Company during the early part of the 1800's. Includes personal narratives of his day-to-day adventures, duties to "the Company", personal trials and tribulations in the far north country of Canada, trips and expeditions, and several accounts of his hunting and fishing excursions - all before the age of… Shares: Canada, Indians of North America, Description and travel, Travel

Stories of American life and adventure Edward Eggleston · 1895 · ★ 3.7 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The principal aim of this book is to make the reader acquainted with American life and manners in other times. The history of life has come to be esteemed of capital importance, but it finds, as yet, small place in school instruction. The stories and sket. Shares: Indians of North America, United States, Social life and customs, History

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging This volume comprises the second portion of a series of travels. This work includes author's adventure travels in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain. Shares: Description and travel, Travel

Journey Without Maps Graham Greene · 1936 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This is an account of a trip Graham 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

America Theodor de Bry · 1590 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Demanding Coastal/territorial waters included: Shares: Indians of North America, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel

From sea to sea; letters of travel Rudyard Kipling · 1889 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Galley proofs, corrected in Kipling's hand, in preparation for the 1899 ed. of "From sea to sea." Only "Letters from Marque" was retained in the published version. The other parts were not published in book form until 1920, when they were included in "Letters of travel: 1892-1913." Shares: Canada, Description and travel, United States, Travel

The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson · 1913 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Reflects the plight of Indian women caught between the forces of cultural continuity and the pressures of assimilation in Canada. Shares: Canada, Indians of North America, Social life and customs

The travelling bachelor James Fenimore Cooper · 1828 · 486p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Notions of the Americans in considered Cooper's first work of non-fiction despite a thin overlay of character and plot. Written in the form of a travel narrative, it addresses the widespread ignorance he encountered in Europe about the people and institutions of the United States. It is an exuberant chant of praise for American representative democracy, encapsulating the utopian vision that… Shares: Description and travel, United States, Early works to 1800, Travel

Podróże z Herodotem Ryszard Kapuściński · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 279p · ≈ 9h · Moderate From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad -- perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India -- the first stop on a… Shares: Civilization, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

Presidents for Kids Presidents For Kids · 2025 TIME For Kids presents a complete overview of our nation's chief executives from George Washington to the newly elected 45th president!Did you know that James Monroe was the first president to appear without a wig in public? Or that George W. Bush appointed the first African-American secretary of state? Presidents of the United States invites the reader inside the White House to discover… Shares: United States, Biography & Memoir

The history of New-Hampshire Jeremy Belknap · 1784 · ★ 2.8 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Demanding The HISTORY OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers to the European settlements in North America through independence, with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain. Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual… Shares: Indians of North America, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel

An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli James Boswell · 1768 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Demanding "This first complete reprint of James Boswell's book on Corsica since the eighteenth century is enhanced by comprehensive annotation, textual apparatus, and a critical introduction. Boswell designed his text in two parts, first, an "Account" of Corsica, which gives a historical, political, socioeconomic, and cultural overview of the Corsican people, and second, the "Journal" of his tour to see… Shares: Diaries, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel

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