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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, Social life and customs

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 Moeurs et coutumes, Mœurs et coutumes, Description and travel, Travel

Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 Reuben Gold Thwaites · 1904 · 369p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel: descriptive of the Indians and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement, Edited with notes, introduction, index, etc. The 32 volumes of reprints include 2 volumes of indexes. Some of the reprints are offered separately on this website, and… Shares Indiens, Moeurs et coutumes, Indians of North America, 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.

Travels in Arabia Deserta Charles Montagu Doughty · 1888 · ★ 3.6 · 323p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares Moeurs et coutumes, Mœurs et coutumes, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Backwoods of Canada Catherine Parr Traill · 1836 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity on *The Backwoods of Canada*, by Catherine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land. Traill offers a vivid and honest account of her trip to North America and of her first two and a helf years living in the bush… Shares Correspondence, Indians of North America, Description and travel, Travel

Society in America Harriet Martineau · 1837 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares Moeurs et coutumes, Mœurs et coutumes, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Notes from a Big Country Bill Bryson · 1998 · ★ 4.5 · 363p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The phenomenal bestseller from the author of Notes From a Small Island.From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other side of the pond, and is… Shares Moeurs et coutumes, Mœurs et coutumes, Description and travel, Travel

Domestic manners of the Americans Frances Milton Trollope · 1832 · 366p · ≈ 12h · Challenging When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. But what followed was a tragicomedy of illness, scandal and failed business ventures. Nevertheless, on her return to… Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

Letters from New York Lydia Maria Child · 1843 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Shares Mœurs et coutumes, Correspondence, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Bitter lemons Lawrence Durrell · 1957 · 271p · ≈ 9h · Moderate With the publication of Justine Lawrence Durrell became, almost overnight, one of the most talked about, widely acclaimed novelists of the decade. Now, in Bitter Lemons, his focus has shifted from the world of his imagination to life itself. Writing in the exquisite poetic prose that critics have hailed as unequalled in contemporary literature, he tells the perceptive, often humorous story of his… Shares Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

The Moccasin Maker E. Pauline Johnson · 1913 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Reflects the plight of Indian women caught between the forces of cultural continuity and the pressures of assimilation in Canada. Shares Indiens, Indians of North America, Social life and customs

Palmetto-leaves Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1873 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging After the Civil War, the Stowes bought a house on the St. Johns River near Mandarin, Florida. For several years, they spent the winters at their Florida home. In 1872, Stowe published Pametto Leaves describing the area, its people and wildlife. The book is organized as a series of articles and includes several ink sketches. It provides a unique view of north Florida and may have influenced Henry… Shares Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

Epistolae Ho-Elianae James Howell · 1650 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Shares Correspondence, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs with this book.

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 Ethnology, Description and travel, Travel

Our Old Home Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1863 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging 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, Social life and customs

A diary in America Frederick Marryat · 1839 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Challenging "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 Indians of North America, Description and travel, Travel, Social life and customs

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