Tag: Expedition

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Adventure Science Fiction Novel

An early science fiction novel written by the second most translated author, French writer Jules Verne, the classic tale depicts an incredible sea exp...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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Jules Verne

Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru

Non-Fiction Biography

Francisco Pizarro (1471 - 1541) was born into poverty, the illegitimate son of a Spanish soldier. After a brief career as a swineherd, he volunteered...

Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru

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Frederick Ober

The Worst Journey in the World, Vol. 1

Memoir

In 1910, Cherry-Garrard and his fellow explorers travelled by sailing vessel, the Terra Nova, from Cardiff to McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. "Cherry" was...

The Worst Journey in the World, Vol. 1

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard

In the Heart of Africa

Travel

A wonderfully readable condensation of two of Baker's earlier, longer works recounting his self-sponsored expeditions into the Dark Continent to disco...

In the Heart of Africa

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Samuel White Baker

Off on a Comet

Adventure Novel

The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on Januar...

Off on a Comet

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Jules Verne

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

Memoir

Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roosevelt-Rond...

Through the Brazilian Wilderness

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Theodore Roosevelt

The People that Time Forgot

Fiction Novel Science

The People That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second of his Caspak trilogy. The sequence was first publi...

The People that Time Forgot

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Almayer's Folly

Adventure Fiction Novel

Almayer's Folly is Joseph Conrad's first novel, published in 1895 by T. Fisher Unwin. Set in the late 19th century, it centres on the life of the Dutc...

Almayer's Folly

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Joseph Conrad

The Magnificent Adventure

Adventure Novel

"The Magnificent Adventure" in 1916 was set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This fictional story is brimming...

The Magnificent Adventure

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Emerson Hough

Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

Memoir

Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs know...

Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

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Austen Layard

Into the Frozen South

Adventure Non-Fiction

James Marr was a Boy Scout selected to go along with Sir Ernest Shackleton aboard the Quest in 1921 for the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition to Antarctica...

Into the Frozen South

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James W. S. Marr

Yellowstone Expedition of 1870

History

Lt. Gustavus Doane was a member of the 1870 Yellowstone Expedition led by Henry Washburn. Washburn requested military support from General Hancock of...

Yellowstone Expedition of 1870

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Gustavus Cheyney Doane

Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution

Travel

This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in Haiti’s his...

Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution

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John Dryden Kuser

Among Cannibals

Reference work

It provides a first-hand account of Lumholtz's four-year expedition in Australia, where he lived among indigenous tribes and documented their customs,...

Among Cannibals

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Carl Lumholtz

The Mine with the Iron Door

Novel

It tells the story of a man named Hugh Mottram who goes on a journey of self-discovery and adventure in the American Southwest. The novel was first pu...

The Mine with the Iron Door

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Harold Bell Wright

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