For Canada , Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our heritage tha...
Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the f...
It will not be all easy traveling for any of us, to journey with this daring explorer of the Unseen; there is some steep hill-climbing, some scramblin...
Tales of the brave and daring explorers that ventured into the unknown "Sea of Darkness" where it was thought monsters and angry gods lived. They dare...
Burton's best-known achievements include traveling in disguise to Mecca, The Book of One Thousand Nights and A Night, an unexpurgated translation of O...
Heroines of Travel documents the bravery and fortitude of a number of Victorian-era women who showed that adventure and exciting experiences found in...
An account of a 1918 journey to Northern China by famed adventurer/paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews, who was the inspiration for the many e...
This is a 1906 collection of three essays by men famously associated with The Grand Canyon: Charles A. Higgins, John Wesley Powell, and Charles F. Lum...
A voyage on the famous Nonestic Ocean! What could be more thrilling than that? We—many of us—have taken trips on the prosaic Atlantic or even Pacific,...
It is a thrilling historical account of the famous expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the uncharted American West in the...
The frozen wastes of the Arctic and Antarctic have long been a source of fascination and mystery.
The Romance of Polar Exploration tells the story of...
Paul the Dauntless is a biography of the Apostle Paul, one of the most important figures in the history of Christianity. The book follows Paul on his...
"Under the Andes" is a thrilling and captivating adventure novel by Rex Stout, taking readers on a journey to the depths of the Andes mountains in Sou...
In 1917, Hiram Bingham, the explorer who discovered Machu Picchu, became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of Military Aeronautics at...
Captain Salt in Oz, the thirtieth book in the Oz series, follows Captain Salt, a reformed pirate turned Royal Explorer of Oz, and his crew on an adven...
Gertrude Bell was a British explorer, writer, archeologist, and political officer who played a major role in the formation of the modern Middle East....
A funny story by Christopher Morley, a regular dog named Gissing decides there's more to life than chasing bones. He wants to find the big answer, the...
