18 books like Canoeing in the wilderness

What to read after Canoeing in the wilderness — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Wildsam Field Guides Taylor Elliott Bruce · 2013 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Shares: America, Travel

Through the Brazilian wilderness Theodore Roosevelt · 1904 · ★ 4.4 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) wrote this firsthand account of his experiences as coleader of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition during its trek through unknown regions of Paraguay and Brazil from the late fall of 1913 to the spring of 1914. Instigated at the request of the American Museum of Natural History and the Brazilian government itself, the expedition was charged with mapping… Shares: America, Description and travel, Travel

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

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

Hills and the sea Hilaire Belloc · 1906 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Hills and the Sea, first published in 1906 to critical acclaim, collects thirty-eight of Hilaire Belloc's essays, spanning several periods of time and travel. Belloc captures the essence of each place he visits--whether on the gloomy English fens, or the sunny Provence and Languedoc regions of France, or navigating the North Sea in a leaky boat. Praised for his blend of wit and philosophy, Belloc… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

The Aran Islands J. M. Synge · 1906 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Challenging "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: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

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

The rise of our East African Empire Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry Baron · 1893 · 1247p · ≈ 41h · Demanding Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

Operations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into Upper Egypt, and an appendix Richard William Howard Howard-Vyse · 1840 · 439p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells · 1872 · ★ 3.2 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging 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… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

Journal d'un voyage à Temboctou et à Jenné, dans l'Afrique centrale René Caillié · 1830 · 500p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Second book of 3. First person account of how René Caillié managed to get to Temboctou in 1828 ( and managed to get back to tell the story). This book , the book end when mister Caillié is following a caravan, trying to get back to African sea coast. Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

Ein Winter auf Mallorca George Sand · 1869 · ★ 4.0 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Im November 1838 reist ein berühmtes Liebespaar nach Mallorca: George Sand und der von Tuberkulose gezeichnete Frédéric Chopin, der sich im südlichen Klima gesundheitliche Besserung erhofft. Zudem wollen die exzentrische Schriftstellerin und der Komponist ihr junges Liebesglück fernab von Klatsch und Tratsch der Pariser Gesellschaft genießen. Doch diese Reise ist voller Widrigkeiten: Erst nach… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

A little tour in France Henry James · 1884 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Challenging | caption = Cover of the 1900 edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

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: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

Pictures from Italy Charles Dickens · 1846 · ★ 3.5 · 125p · ≈ 4h · Challenging From the book:If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect. Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts Jasper Danckaerts · 1867 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The Journal of two members of the Labadist sect who came over to this country in order to find a location for the establishment of a community has served to throw a flood of light upon what otherwise might have been a lost chapter in the history of Maryland. For so meagre are the sources of ready availability for a knowledge of the Labadist colony which was effected in Maryland that without this… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

Embajada a Tamorlán Ruy González de Clavijo · 1406 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Demanding Embajada a Tamorlán, o Historia del Gran Tamorlan, e itinerario y enarracion del viage, y relacion de la embajada que Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo le hizo por mandado del rey Enrique III de Castilla, es un libro de viaje que da cuenta de la experiencia vivida por los embajadores, entre ellos el escritor de la crónica, Ruy González de Clavijo, enviados por el rey Enrique III de Castilla, así como la… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

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