Audiobooks online: genre "Travel & Geography"

"[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at the beginning of June. The first thirteen chapters of this book were written as letters to the Westminster Gazette. He would probably not have r...

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, August 1898. It includes the following articles: Papagueria, by W. J. McGee Gomez and the New York Gulf, by L. D. Scisco Wellman Polar Expedition, by John Hyde ...

Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art. Most European cities have changed so much that a 1920 guidebook would be of little practical use, but not so Venice. Lonsdale and Laura Ra...

National Geographic Magazine Volume 5, articles published in 1893. Contents:Discoverers of America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. HubbardThe Movements of our PopulationRainfall Types of the United States: Annual Report by Vice-President...

“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and when taken together they illustrate the attitude I mean. The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed of thinking a thing funny bec...

National Geographic Magazine Volume 3, articles published in 1891 and 1892.South America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. HubbardGeography of the Land: Annual Report by Vice-President Herbert G. OgdenGeography of the Air: ...

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, June 1898, the Philippines Number. It includes the following articles: The Philippine Islands, by F. F. Hilder Notes on Some Primitive Philippine Tribes, by Dean C. Worcester Comme...

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, June 1899. It includes the following articles: National Growth and National Character, by W. J. McGee Jobos Harbor, by O. H. Tittmann Samoa: Navigators Islands, by Command...

This 1854 narration of a trip upon the Ohio River in a steamboat from Cincinnati to Pittsburg gives a picture of travel in a different time and almost a different United States. The author was well-known in his time and wrote prolifically. - Summary by david wales...

Exeter, county town of Devon, is one of England's most historic cities with remains of the Roman occupation and medieval times still on view. Exeter cathedral, founded in 1050 and completed 400 years later, has the longest uninterrupted vaulted ceiling in the country. This short ...

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the June Number. It includes the following articles: The Effects of Geographic Environment in the Development of Civilization in Primitive Man, by Gardiner G. Hubbard The National Forest R...

The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It contains a rather broad overview of all topics connected to the ocean, such as its geography and the history of the exploration of the oceans. Besides the oceans themselves, the book contains several chapters on the d...