Travel and Exploration

A collection of works on travel and exploration.

Itinerary: Britain — Continental Europe — The Eastern Mediterranean, Arabia and Egypt — Africa — Asia — North America — South America — Pacific — Australia and New Zealand — The Arctic and Antarctic — The World

Europe

Great Britain and Ireland

Paul Hentzner: Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1612) [ read | download ]
Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731): From London to Land's End [ read | download ]; A Tour throught the Eastern Counties of England in 1722 [ read | download ]
Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784: A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland [ read | download ]
James Boswell (1740-1795): Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson [ read | download ]
Karl Philipp Moritz, 1756-1793: Travels in England in 1782 [ read | download ]
George Borrow, 1803-1881: Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery [ read | download ]
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870: The Uncommercial Traveller (1860-9) [ read | download ]

Continental Europe

Albrecht Durer, 1471-1528.: Albrecht Durer's Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Henry Fielding (1707-1754): Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon [ read | download ]
Laurence Sterne, (1713-1768): A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768) [ read | download ]
Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771): Travels through France & Italy (1766) [ read | download ]
Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797: Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark [ read | download ]
Washington Irving, 1783-1859: The Alhambra [ read | download ]
George Borrow, 1803-1881: The Bible in Spain [ read | download ]
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870: Pictures From Italy (1846) [ read | download ]; The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (1857) [ read | download ]
William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863): Little Travels and Roadside Sketches [ read | download ]
Samuel Butler 1835-1902: Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino [ read | download ]
Matilda Betham-Edwards, 1836-1919: Holidays in Eastern France (1879) [ from Project Gutenberg ]; The Roof of France (1889) [ from Project Gutenberg ]; East of Paris (1902) [ from Project Gutenberg ]; In the Heart of the Vosges, and other sketches (1911) [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894: Essays of Travel [ read | download ]
Cockermouth and Keswick — An Autumn Effect — A Winter's Walk in Carrick and Galloway — Forest Notes — A Mountain Town in France — Random Memories: rosa quo locorum — The Ideal House — Davos in Winter — Health and Mountains — Alpine Diversions — The Stimulation of the Alps — Roads — On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places; An Inland Voyage (1878) [ read | download ]; Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) [ read | download ]
William Dean Howells (1837-1920): Familiar Spanish Travels (1913) [ read | download ]
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930): Twilight in Italy (1916) [ read | download ]
George Orwell (1903-1950): Homage to Catalonia (1938) [ read | download ]

The Eastern Mediterranean, Arabia and Egypt

John Lewis Burckhardt, 1784-1817: Travels in Nubia (to which is prefixed a biographical memoir) (1819) [ read | download ]; Travels in Syria and the Holy Land (1822) [ read | download ]; Travels In Arabia [ read | download ]
William Makepeace Thackeray, (1811-1863): Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo (1846) [ read | download ]
Alexander William Kinglake, 1809-1891: Eothen [ read | download ]
Sir Richard Francis Burton, (1821-1890): Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah (1855) [ read | download ]
Isabel Burton (1831-1896): The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton [ read | download ]

Africa

Mungo Park, 1771-1806: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7 [ read | print | download ]; The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 (1815) [ read | print | download ]
James Richardson (1806-1851): Travels in Morocco (1860) [ read | download ]
David Livingstone, 1813-1873: A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa (1858-1864) [ read | download ]; Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. [ read | download ]
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904): How I Found Livingstone [ read | download ]
Sir Richard Francis Burton, (1821-1890): First footsteps in East Africa; or, An Exploration of Harar (1856), by Richard F. Burton [ read | download ]; Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo (1876) [ read | download ]; The Land of Midian (1879) [ read | download ]
John Hanning Speke, 1827-1864: The Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863) [ from Project Gutenberg ]; What Led to the Discovery of the Source Of The Nile (1864) [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Mary Henrietta Kingsley, (1862-1900): Travels in West Africa [ read | download ]

Asia

Fa-hsien (ca.337-ca.422): A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline [ read | download ]
Sir John Mandeville: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville [ read | download ]; Mandeville's Voyages, extracted from Hakluyt's Voyages [ read | download ]
Odoric: The iournall of Frier Odoricus, one of the order of the Minorites, concerning strange things which hee sawe among the Tarters of the East [ read | download ]
William de Rubruquis: The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253 [ read | download ]
John de Plano Carpini (d.1252): The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini [ read | download ]
Isabella L. Bird (1831-1904): Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1877) [ read | download ]; The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither (1877) [ read | download ]; Among the Tibetans (1886) [ read | download ]
Anna Leonowens (1834-1914): The English Governess At The Siamese Court [ from Project Gutenberg ]

North America

Fanny Trollope (1780-1863): Domestic Manners of the Americans [ read | download ]
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870: American Notes (1842) [ read | download ]
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882): North America (1862) [ read | download ]
Meriwether Lewis & William Clark: The Journals of Lewis and Clarke 1804-1806 [ from Project Gutenberg ]
John Muir, 1838-1914: Travels in Alaska [ from Project Gutenberg ]; The Yosemite [ from Project Gutenberg ]; Steep Trails [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Isabella L. Bird (1831-1904): Lady's Life in Rocky Mountains (1873) [ read | download ]
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894: The Amateur Emigrant (1879) [ read | download ]; Across the Plains (1879) [ read | download ]; The Old Pacific Capital (1880) [ read ]; The Silverado Squatters (1883) [ read | download ]; The Sea Fogs [ read | download ]

Central and South America

Alexander von Humboldt, 1769-1859: Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 [ read | print | download ]
Frances Calderon de la Barca, 1804-1882: Life in Mexico [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Charles Darwin (1809-1882): The Voyage of the Beagle [ read | download ]
Thomas Belt (1832-1878): The Naturalist in Nicaragua [ from Project Gutenberg ]

Pacific

Isabella L. Bird (1831-1904): The Hawaiian Archipelago (1873) [ read | download ]
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894: A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892) [ read | download ]; In the South Seas (1896) [ read | download ]

Australasia

James Cook, 1728-1779: Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world made in H.M. Bark “Endeavour” 1768-71 [ read | download ]; Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook; With an Account of his Life during the previous and intervening periods. by A. Kippis [ read | download ]
John White (1757/8-1832): Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales [ read | download ]
John Pinkerton, 1758-1826: Early Australian Voyages [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Watkin Tench (1758-1833): A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (1788) [ read | download ]; A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (1793) [ read | download ]
Gregory Blaxland, 1771-1853: Journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the year 1813 [ read | download ]
John Oxley, 1783-1828: Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British government in the years 1817-18 [ read | download ]
Thomas Mitchell (1792-1855): Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia: In search of a route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) [ read | download ]
Charles Sturt, 1795-1869: An account of the sea coast and interior of South Australia with observations on various subjects connected with its interests [ read | download ]; Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia performed under the authority of Her Majesty's government, during the years 1844, 5, and 6 [ read | download ]; Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during the years 1828,1829,1830,1831 with observations on the soil, climate and general resources of the Colony of New South Wales [ read | download ]
Edward Wilson Landor (1811-1878): The Bushman; or, Life in a New Country (1847) [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Ludwig Leichhardt, 1813-1848: Journal of an overland expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 [ read | download ]
John McDouall Stuart (1815-1866): The Journals of John McDouall Stuart [ read | download ]
William Westgarth (1815-1889): Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Edward John Eyre, 1815-1901: An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans [ read | download ]; Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 [ read | download ]
Augustus Gregory (1819-1905) and Charles Gregory (1821-1888): Journals of Australian Exploration, 1884
William Carron, 1823-1876: Narrative of an expedition undertaken under the direction of the late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy, for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York; by Wm. Carron, one of the survivors of the expedition [ read | download ]
William John Wills (1834-1861): Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria. [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Ernest Giles, 1835-1897: Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration, being A Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 TO 1876. [ read | download ]
Samuel Butler 1835-1902: A First Year in Canterbury Settlement [ read | download ]
Frank and Alexander Jardine, 1841-1919: Narrative of the overland expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland [ read | download ]
David Carnegie (1871-1900): Spinifex and Sand [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Mrs. Charles (Ellen) Clacy: A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939): Kanga Creek: An Australian Idyll [ read | download ]
Ernest Favenc (1845-1908): The History of Australian Exploration [ from Project Gutenberg ]
John Forrest (1847-1918): Explorations in Australia [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Ida Lee (1865-1943): The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson; Early Explorers in Australia [ read | download ]
Sir Ernest Scott (1867-1939): Terre Napoleon [ from Project Gutenberg ]; The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders [ from Project Gutenberg ]; Laperouse [ from Project Gutenberg ]; Australian Discovery [ read | download ]; A Short History of Australia [ read | download ]

Arctic & Antarctic

Davis, John, 1543-1605: The worldes hydrographical discription. Wherein is proued ... that the worlde in all his zones clymats and places, is habitable and inhabited, and the seas likewise vniuersally nauigable ... whereby appeares that from England there is a short and speedie passage into the South Seas, to China, Molucca, Phillipina, and India, by northely nauigation [ read | download ]
Richard Hakluyt: Voyages in Search of The North-West Passage [ read | download ]
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946.: The Arctic Prairies
A Canoe-Journey of 2,000 miles in search of the Caribou being the account of a voyage to the Region North of Aylmer Lake [ from Project Gutenberg ]
Roald Amundsen (1872-1928): The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 [ read | download ]
Ernest Shackleton, (1874-1922): South: the Story of Shackleton's last expedition [ read | download ]

General

Richard Hakluyt: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation [ read | download ]; The Discovery of Muscovy, by Richard Hakluyt [ from Project Gutenberg ]; Voyager's Tales, by Richard Hakluyt [ from Project Gutenberg ]