18 books like Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle:
Journey Without Maps
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
Shares Description and travel, Travel with this book.
Far away and long ago
Argentinian-English ornithologist and writer William Henry Hudson recounts his early years in Argentina and his move to England in this 1918 autobiography.
Shares Naturalistes, Naturalists, Description and travel, Travel
Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia
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
Journey to the shores of the Polar sea, in 1819-20-21-22
Shares Scientific expeditions, Diaries, Description and travel, Travel with this book.
Diarios de Motocicleta
The young Che Guevara’s lively and highly entertaining travel diary, now a popular movie and a New York Times bestseller.
This new, expanded edition features exclusive, unpublished photos taken by the 23-year-old Ernesto on his journey across a continent, and a tender preface by Aleida Guevara, offering an insightful perspective on the man and the icon.
Features of this edition…
Shares South america, Diaries, Description and travel, Travel
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest English writers, and Heart of Darkness is considered his best. His readers are…
Shares Diaries, Description and travel, Travel, History
Autobiography
Shares Naturalistes, Naturalists, History with this book.
A diary in America
"First appeared in June 1839...in three volumes, with three supplementary volumes appearing later in the year... In preparing this edition...I have used both the first and second series."
Shares Diaries, Description and travel, Travel, History
Views a-foot: or, Europe seen with a knapsack and staff
Shares Description and travel, Travel with this book.
The Awful Secret
The Awful Secret
Shares History with this book.
Dead Men's Money
A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself…
Shares History
The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's…
Shares History
My first summer in the Sierra
Introduction by Mike Davis; Illustrated with photographs by Herbert W. Gleason and drawings by the author
Shares Naturalists, Description and travel, History
Autobiography of Lutfullah
Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Shares Description and travel, Travel, History
Our Old Home
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, History
Juan de la Rosa
Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation.
Set in the early 1800s, this novel is narrated by one of the last surviving…
Shares South america, History
A Journey from This World to the Next
This unique double edition brings together Henry Fielding's two voyage narratives. A Journey from this World to the Next (1743) and The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (1755) belong, in different ways, to the travel-writing tradition, and show Fielding standing in ironic relation to the genre.
The Journey is a powerful yet playful narrative, in which Fielding anatomizes contemporary follies with…
Shares Diaries, Description and travel, Travel, History
About the book { book.title } → · Compare with Journey Without Maps ⚔