18 books like Lost City of the Incas
Le Rhin
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Autobiography of Lutfullah
Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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The Lands of the Saracen
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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…
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Twilight in Italy
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.
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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.
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Trionfo della morte
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Hills and the sea
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California and Oregon trail
Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
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Ein Winter auf Mallorca
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When the Going Was Good
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…
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Els viatges d'Ali Bei
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The Aran Islands
"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…
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First footsteps in East Africa
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
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A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Thoreau's first book excels at depicting nature around his trip in words.
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Etruscan places
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Views a-foot: or, Europe seen with a knapsack and staff
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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…
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