18 books like An overland journey

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Le Rhin Victor Hugo · 1800 · ★ 4.4 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Journeys, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Autobiography of Lutfullah Lutfullah · 1857 · 429p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares Journeys, Description and travel, Travel, History

California and Oregon trail Francis Parkman · 1872 · ★ 3.6 · 381p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians. Shares Journeys, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Travel

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.

Twilight in Italy D. H. Lawrence · 1916 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. "Twilight in Italy" is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to the twilight of a way of life centuries old. Shares Journeys, Description and travel, Travel, History

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

King Arthur's Knights Henry Gilbert · 1900 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Recounts the exploits of King Arthur and his knights at the court of Camelot and elsewhere in the land of the Britons. Shares Mormons, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Description and travel

Hills and the sea Hilaire Belloc · 1906 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Journeys, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

The Quick and the Dead Louis L'Amour · 1973 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men--men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn't even possess.Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel's worries.… Shares Overland journeys to the Pacific, Frontier and pioneer life

Ein Winter auf Mallorca George Sand · 1869 · ★ 4.0 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Journeys, Description and travel, Travel, History with this book.

Life on the plains and among the diggings Alonzo Delano · 1854 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Born in Aurora, New York, Alonzo Delano (1806-1874) moved on to the Midwest as a teenager. July 1848 found him a consumptive Ottawa, Illinois, storekeeper, and he joined a local California Company. He remained in the West after the Gold Rush, winning fame as an early California humorist. Life on the plains and among the diggings (1857) is based largely on letters from Delano published in Ottawa… Shares Overland journeys to the Pacific, Frontier and pioneer life, Description and travel, Travel

When the Going Was Good Evelyn Waugh · 1934 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate With the publication of When the Going Was Good Little, Brown takes great pleasure in returning to print a classic of travel journalism. Between 1928 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh wrote four travel books: Labels, Remote People, Ninety-Two Days, and Waugh in Abyssinia, about journeys he made in Africa, South America, and the Middle East. In 1945 he excerpted five long pieces from these books and published… Shares Journeys, Description and travel, Travel, History

Els viatges d'Ali Bei Ali Bey · 1814 · 465p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Journeys, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

The Aran Islands J. M. Synge · 1906 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Moderate "In the late 1890s, John M. Synge, in his middle twenties and unsure of his vocations made his way to Paris intending to study French literature and become a literary critic. There he met William Butler Yeats. The eminent poet advised Synge to drop his involvements with fin de siecle French authors, return to Ireland, and describe a society with which he had some natural connection. Yeats… Shares Journeys, Description and travel, Travel

First footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton · 1856 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A diary style narrative of an exploration of Somalia. PDF (firstfootstepsin01burtuoft.pdf) is Vol. 6 of 1894 memorial edition--Vol. 1 of 2 of An exploration of Harar Shares Journeys, Description and travel, Travel

A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Henry David Thoreau · 1849 · ★ 4.1 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Thoreau's first book excels at depicting nature around his trip in words. Shares Journeys, Description and travel, Travel, History

Views a-foot: or, Europe seen with a knapsack and staff Bayard Taylor · 1846 · 427p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Description and travel, Travel with this book.

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