18 books like North America

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Description of Greece Pausanias · 1613 · 488p · ≈ 16h · Demanding Pausanias (110 – 180 A.D.), was a Greek geographer, known for his work Description of Greece.  The ten volumes (which are all included), cover Attica, Corinth, Laconia, and more.  This edition is translated by W.H.S. Jones and H.A. Ormerod. Shares: Politique et gouvernement, Descriptions et voyages, Politics and government, Description and travel

Society in America Harriet Martineau · 1837 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging After having published several works on economics, Harriet Martineau travelled through the USA and wrote down her experiences in the work 'Society in America' in 1837. This book is a social study, that is known as one of the first sociological studies at all. She focuses on slavery and on women's role in American society and causes controversial discussion in her time. Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Politics and government, Description and travel, United States

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, Description and travel, Travel, History

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts Jasper Danckaerts · 1867 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The Journal of two members of the Labadist sect who came over to this country in order to find a location for the establishment of a community has served to throw a flood of light upon what otherwise might have been a lost chapter in the history of Maryland. For so meagre are the sources of ready availability for a knowledge of the Labadist colony which was effected in Maryland that without this… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, United States, Early works to 1800

Pyongyang Guy Delisle · 2003 · ★ 3.9 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A Westerner's visit into North Korea, told in the form of a graphic novel. Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most secretive and mysterious nations in the world today. In early 2001 cartoonist Guy Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortresslike country. While living in the nation's capital for two months on… Shares: Politique et gouvernement, Politics and government, Description and travel, Travel

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: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, United States, Early works to 1800

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: Politics and government, Description and travel, Travel

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, Authors, Description and travel, Travel

Angliae notitia Edward Chamberlayne · 1669 · 332p · ≈ 11h · Demanding Shares: Politics and government, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel

Canoeing in the wilderness Henry David Thoreau · 1916 · ★ 3.8 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging From the great nature writer behind Walden comes an account of a trip he made into the wilderness. The chief attraction that inspired Thoreau to make the trip was the primitiveness of the region. Here was a vast tract of almost virgin woodland, peopled only with a few loggers and pioneer farmers, Indians, and wild animals. Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

American Tabloid James Ellroy · 1995 · ★ 4.3 · 571p · ≈ 19h · Moderate We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's Presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination - in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C.... Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy... Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a… Shares: Politique et gouvernement, Politics and government, United States

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging This volume comprises the second portion of a series of travels. This work includes author's adventure travels in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain. Shares: Description and travel, Travel

Journey Without Maps Graham Greene · 1936 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Challenging This is an account of a trip Graham 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

Embajada a Tamorlán Ruy González de Clavijo · 1406 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Demanding Embajada a Tamorlán, o Historia del Gran Tamorlan, e itinerario y enarracion del viage, y relacion de la embajada que Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo le hizo por mandado del rey Enrique III de Castilla, es un libro de viaje que da cuenta de la experiencia vivida por los embajadores, entre ellos el escritor de la crónica, Ruy González de Clavijo, enviados por el rey Enrique III de Castilla, así como la… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel

Hills and the sea Hilaire Belloc · 1906 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Hills and the Sea, first published in 1906 to critical acclaim, collects thirty-eight of Hilaire Belloc's essays, spanning several periods of time and travel. Belloc captures the essence of each place he visits--whether on the gloomy English fens, or the sunny Provence and Languedoc regions of France, or navigating the North Sea in a leaky boat. Praised for his blend of wit and philosophy, Belloc… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Travel

Impressions of America during the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 Power, Tyrone · 1836 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

Travels with Charley John Steinbeck · 1962 · ★ 4.1 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives… Shares: Descriptions et voyages, Authors, Description and travel, United States

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: Authors, Description and travel, Travel

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