18 books like Eldorado Or Adventures In Path Of Empire

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

The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883 · ★ 3.4 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) traveled to California in 1879 in pursuit of Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne, the Oakland woman with whom he had fallen in love in France. The two were married in the spring of 1880 and honeymooned in a cabin at Silverado, a mining ghost town on Mt. St. Helena. In the next fourteen years, Mrs. Stevenson nursed her husband while he produced the verses, stories, and… Shares Ethnic groups, Zamorano 80, California, Description and 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.

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 West, Journeys, Description and travel, Travel

American notes Rudyard Kipling · 1890 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Challenging An account of America from Rudyard Kipling while visiting San Francisco in the late 1800s. Shares West, Journeys, 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 Journeys, 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

Expedition Kon-Tiki Thor Heyerdahl · 1949 · ★ 4.2 · 235p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Presents the Kon-Tiki expedition led by explorer Thor Heyerdahl as he and his crew travel from South America and Polynesia on a raft made from balsa wood. Shares Ethnic groups, Description and travel, Travel

The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin · 1903 · 66p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native… Shares Zamorano 80, California, Description and travel, Travel

Hills and the sea Hilaire Belloc · 1906 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Journeys, 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

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

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.

Three years in California [1846-1849] Walter Colton · 1850 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Walter Colton (1797-1851) of Vermont had a career as clergyman and journalist before sailing to California as naval chaplain of the Congress. In July 1846, Commodore Stockton named him alcalde of Monterey, a post to which he was elected a few months later. He remained in California until 1849, using his time to found the state's first newspaper and building its first schoolhouse. Three years in… Shares Zamorano 80, Gold discoveries, Description and travel

Wild Wales George Henry Borrow · 1798 · 608p · ≈ 20h · Demanding Shares Journeys, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

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