18 books like Travels to discover the source of the Nile

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America Theodor de Bry · 1590 · 42p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Shares Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Description and travel, Early works to 1800 with this book.

Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile John Hanning Speke · 1863 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Discoveries in geography, Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Africa with this book.

Journey to the shores of the Polar sea, in 1819-20-21-22 John Franklin · 1823 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Natural history, British with this book.

The rise of our East African Empire Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry Baron · 1893 · 1247p · ≈ 41h · Demanding Shares Discovery and exploration, Africa, Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Trionfo della morte Gabriele D'Annunzio · 1896 · ★ 3.8 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Shares Antiquities, Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel with this book.

Frozen in time Owen Beattie · 1987 · ★ 4.1 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate xvii, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm Shares Explorers, Discovery and exploration, British, Biography & Memoir

Os Lusíadas Luís de Camões · 1572 · ★ 4.0 · 564p · ≈ 18h · Challenging *Os Lusíadas*, usually translated as *The Lusiads*, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís de Camões and first published in 1572. It is widely regarded as the most important work of Portuguese-language literature and is frequently compared to Virgil's *Aeneid*. The work celebrates the discovery of a sea route to India by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama (1469–1524). The ten cantos of the… Shares Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Description and travel, Early works to 1800

The natural history of Selborne Gilbert White · 1789 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Natural history, Antiquities, Description and travel, Early works to 1800 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

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

Torches Together Emmy Arnold · 1964 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate **Not many people talk about "joy" these days.** Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of… Shares Biography & Memoir, History

Endurance Alfred Lansing · 1959 · ★ 4.5 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England, in August 1914. The ship became locked inside an island of ice, and was later crushed. This tale of survival by Shackleton and all 27 of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctice seas defined heroism. Shares Explorers, Discovery and exploration, British, Travel

Georg Forster's sämmtliche Schriften

Georg Forster's sämmtliche Schriften Georg Forster · 1986 · 218p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Discoveries in geography, Discovery and exploration, Natural history, Description and travel with this book.

Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Meriwether Lewis · 1953 · ★ 4.0 · 504p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Primiary source. Shares Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Description and travel, Travel

Journal d'un voyage à Temboctou et à Jenné, dans l'Afrique centrale René Caillié · 1830 · 500p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Second book of 3. First person account of how René Caillié managed to get to Temboctou in 1828 ( and managed to get back to tell the story). This book , the book end when mister Caillié is following a caravan, trying to get back to African sea coast. Shares Discovery and exploration, Africa, Description and travel, Travel

The cannibal islands Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1850 · 68p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Shares Discoveries in geography, Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Description and travel with this book.

A summarie of the chronicles of England John Stow · 1565 · 459p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Travel, History with this book.

Arctic explorations Elisha Kent Kane · 1856 · 273p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Narrative of organization and course of expedition to Smith Sound, wintering on north-west coast of Greenland, various surveys, abandonment of Advance and return to Upernavik in small boats. Shares Discoveries in geography, Discovery and exploration, Travel, Biography & Memoir

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