Books tagged with Travel[27 found]
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The End of the Trail
by E. Alexander Powell
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
An intrepid correspondent crosses the American West from New Mexico to British Columbia, recording a frontier in its last restless hours. He rides desert trails and logging camps, meets ranchers, prospectors, soldiers, and tribal elders, and weighs railroads, dams, and tourism against the plains, canyons, and forests they threaten—a vivid chronicle of a land trading legend for modernity.
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Cape Cod
by Henry David Thoreau
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A wanderer roams Cape Cod’s windswept beaches and rugged dunes, capturing its stark beauty and quirky seaside life. From shipwrecks to hardy fishermen, his keen observations weave a vivid portrait of the peninsula’s wild shores and resilient people. This reflective journey through 19th-century New England blends nature’s poetry with human tales, celebrating a land shaped by sea and solitude.
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Musk-Ox, Bison, Sheep and Goat
by Owen Wister
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
With Caspar Whitney and George Bird Grinnell, the book is a vivid exploration of North America’s great game animals—musk-ox, bison, sheep, and goat which blends natural history with frontier adventure. Through keen observation and firsthand experience, it captures the majesty of wild creatures, the thrill of the hunt, and the vanishing wilderness of a continent on the edge of change.
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Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan- Volume 2
by Isabella L. Bird
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
Continuing her daring travels, this volume explores the landscapes, peoples, and customs of Persia and Kurdistan. Rich in observation and experience, it offers vivid accounts of adventure, cultural insight, and the challenges of journeying through remote and fascinating regions.
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Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan- Volume 1
by Isabella L. Bird
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A vivid travel memoir chronicling adventures through Persia and Kurdistan, filled with striking landscapes, cultural encounters, and personal observations. Through daring journeys and keen insight, it offers readers an immersive glimpse into distant lands and the lives of their people.
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Korea and Her Neighbors
by Isabella L. Bird
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A vivid travelogue exploring Korea and its surrounding regions, filled with detailed observations of landscapes, culture, and daily life. Through keen insight and adventurous journeys, it offers readers an engaging portrait of a distant land and its people.
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The Englishwoman in America
by Isabella L. Bird
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A fearless traveler crosses the Atlantic and rides rough stages, lake steamers, and prairie wagons through the raw United States—Boston parlors to frontier cabins, Niagara’s spray to Rocky Mountain snows. With sharp, curious eyes she weighs manners, politics, faith, and food, meeting strangers who prove America’s contradictions: restless, generous, harsh, and endlessly surprising.
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The Hawaiian Archipelago
by Isabella L. Bird
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A journey through the islands’ volcanic landscapes, lush valleys, and vibrant cultures reveals the beauty and complexity of Hawaii in the 19th century. Observations of nature, society, and adventure paint a vivid portrait of an archipelago both enchanting and untamed.
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The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
by Isabella L. Bird
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A daring journey unfolds through the lush jungles and bustling ports of nineteenth-century Southeast Asia. With keen eyes and fearless spirit, a traveler captures the beauty, danger, and wonder of lands rarely seen by Westerners, revealing a vivid portrait of cultures, landscapes, and the courage to explore the unknown.
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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
by Isabella L. Bird
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A fearless Englishwoman explores the untamed Rocky Mountains in the 1870s, riding solo through rugged peaks and frontier towns. Her vivid letters capture thrilling encounters with outlaws, wildlife, and settlers, blending adventure with sharp insights into a wild, changing West
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The Road
by Jack London
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
The Road is London’s autobiographical account of his experiences as a wanderer in the 1890s, when he was still a young man.
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The Cruise of the Snark
by Jack London
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A homemade schooner, a restless crew, and a plan to sail the world. From the nerve-racking launch to calms and cyclones across the Pacific, this log brims with island nights, shark-bright seas, and encounters from Hawai‘i to the Solomons. Hard lessons in seamanship, money, and health turn bravado into grit as the romance of the South Seas collides with the true cost of chasing it.
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In Barbary : Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and the Sahara
by E. Alexander Powell
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A vivid travelogue journeys through Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and the vast Sahara, capturing landscapes, cultures, and daily life. Through keen observation and adventurous narrative, it offers readers an immersive glimpse into the beauty, challenges, and richness of North Africa.
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Where the Strange Trails Go Down
by E. Alexander Powell
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A travel and exploration narrative, in which war correspondent and adventurer E. Alexander Powell recounts his journeys through some of the world’s most exotic regions.
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The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Aegean
by E. Alexander Powell
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A vivid chronicle of postwar Europe, tracing the shifting borders, rebuilding nations, and human resilience from the Alps to the Aegean. Through keen observation and rich detail, it captures a continent redefining freedom and identity after turmoil.
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The Alhambra
by Washington Irving
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A rich tapestry of tales, legends, and history unfolds within the Alhambra palace. Blending romance, mystery, and cultural insight, the stories transport readers to a world of Moorish splendor, intrigue, and timeless wonder.
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A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers
by Henry David Thoreau
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A restless wanderer ventures into Canada, capturing its rugged landscapes and cultural quirks with keen insight. Blending travelogue with fiery essays, he rails against slavery's moral rot and champions reform, urging readers to confront injustice and embrace individual conscience in a world bound by convention.
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
by Henry David Thoreau
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
Two brothers embark on a week-long boat journey through New England’s rivers, blending vivid nature observations with deep reflections on life, art, and spirituality. Their adventure, rich with poetic musings and encounters with the wild, celebrates the beauty of simplicity and the quest for inner truth
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Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843- vol. 2
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
Continuing a searching journey from the Rhine to the Italian peninsula, these letters weave art, ruins, and restless politics into an intimate travel chronicle. In studios and salons, at crumbling amphitheaters and crowded piazzas, a keen observer weighs beauty against poverty, censorship, and hope, tracing how revolution, memory, and grief reshape a conscience on the road.
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Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Categories: Non-Fiction » Travel
A keen observer journeys through Rhineland towns and Alpine passes to the sunlit forums of Italy, tracing art, politics, and private grief in the wake of revolution. Letters and sketches mingle with sharp portraits of salons, studios, and ruins, revealing how beauty, history, and restless modernity remake a traveler’s convictions—and the heart that carries them.
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