18 books like In the South Seas

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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, Journeys, Description and travel, Travel

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

Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes Robert Louis Stevenson · 1879 · ★ 3.6 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile, 12 day hike, accompanied only by his stubborn and unwieldy donkey, through the Cevennes of south-central France. A pioneering piece of outdoor literature, it is one of Stevenson's earliest works, and one of the earliest accounts of hiking and camping for recreation rather than necessity. Stevenson's route is still… Shares Scottish authors, Journeys, Voyages and travels, Description and 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, Voyages and travels, Description and travel, British and irish fiction

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 Descriptions et voyages, Journeys, Description and travel, Travel

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

My discovery of England Stephen Leacock · 1922 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Descriptions et voyages, Journeys, Voyages and travels, Description and travel with this book.

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

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, Journeys, Description and travel, Travel

The Cruise of the Snark Jack London · 1911 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In April 1907 Jack London set out to sail around the world in the 45-foot ship The Snark, accompanied by his wife and a small crew. Although suffering from seasickness and tropical disease, London wrote prolifically, including a series of entertaining sketches of the voyage itself. These were later collected as The Cruise of the Snark, a remarkable record of adventure and love among the islands… Shares Oceania, Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Travel

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

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Description and travel, Travel with this book.

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

An Inland voyage Robert Louis Stevenson · 1878 · ★ 3.6 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. Pioneering new ground in outdoor literature, this was Stevenson's first book. He had decided to become free from his parent's financial support so that he might freely pursue the woman he loved; to support himself he wrote travelogues, most notably An Inland Voyage, Travels… Shares Scottish authors, Description and travel, Travel, Biography & Memoir

An account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli James Boswell · 1768 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Challenging "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 Scottish authors, Journeys, Description and travel, Travel

The Story of Paul Boyton Paul Boyton · 1892 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares Voyages and travels, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Italian journeys William Dean Howells · 1867 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "In the later part of his long and productive life - he wrote well over a dozen novels, thirty-one dramas, a few volumes of verse, several autobiographical works, eleven books of travel - W. D. Howells was considered one of America's foremost men of letters."--BOOK JACKET. "Italian Journeys, published in 1867 and written during the four years Howells spent as an American consul in Venice, is… Shares Descriptions et voyages, Journeys, Description and travel, Travel

A little tour in France Henry James · 1884 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Shares Descriptions et voyages, Journeys, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

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