Classic travel writing

Vividly written and fully illustrated sketches of the travels of the famous explorer, including descriptions of countries and peoples, tales of exploration in all ages and historical stories connected with places described.

Seinen Reisen nach Zentralasien ließ Sven Hedin mit diesem Band seine Fahrt in den Nahen Osten folgen, die in der Hauptsache in einer Exkursion zum Euphrat, dem Besuch von Bagdad mit den Ruinen Babylons und von Mosul mit den Ruinen Ninives bestand, alles höchst anschaulich und lebendig geschildert.

In 1271 Marco Polo set out on a journey to China to meet the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan.

In 1854, Thoreau published the book by which he will always be best known, Walden, or Life in the Woods.

La Relación del Japón, de Rodrigo de Vivero, gobernador y Capitán General de las Filipinas, narra los sucesos que vivió en 1609 tras naufragar en Japón durante un viaje rumbo a Nueva España, el actual México.

Among the many books about the Polar regions there is none quite like this, dealing with the gradual progress of exploration towards the north along the different areas of advance within the Arctic Circle.

In 1849, Thoreau published his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

¡Este libro contiene ahora varias tablas HTML de contenidos que harán de la lectura un verdadero placer!

Inexhaustible faith in human capabilities, the spirit of collectivism, the ability to rally around the realization of the idea permeates the plot of the famous adventure novel by Jules Verne "The Mysterious Island".

A tour round the South American continent, which was completed in so short a time as five months, may not appear to deserve any special record; yet I am led to hope that this little book may serve to induce others to visit a region so abounding in sources of enjoyment and interest.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (geboren 14.

In 1849, Thoreau published his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

The volume on Cape Cod is deliberately formless in style, being interspersed with quotations from old histories and records of merely local interest; it abounds, however, in its author's dry sententious humour and sparkling paradoxes.

La Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha sobre el descubrimiento de Brasil, fechada en el año 1500, y la carta de Américo Vespucio, luego titulada de Mundus Novus, del 1502, constituyen los dos primeros documentos que nos hablan de la población aborigen de Brasil.

Excursions includes the posthumous travel-writing essays of the famous American author.

"ANTARTIDA, Conocerla para amarla y protegerla"; constituye una herramienta introductoria al conocimiento del continente del futuro.

'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts.

The papers brought together in this volume have, in a general way, been arranged in chronological sequence.

Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

Selected passages from the accounts of nearly thirty travellers, together with Lurcock's informed and entertaining commentary, chart the varied responses of British writers to the making of modern Finland up to 1917, the year of independence.

Travels in Alaska is part of a series that celebrates the tradition of literary naturalists-writers who embrace the natural world.

Part anthology, part history, Not So Barren or Uncultivated brings to life these forgotten journeys and gives a picture of Finland at a time when it was little known to the outside world.

The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed are wonderfully vivid and perceptive descriptions of two great Italian cities, told through their history and art, revealing Mary McCarthy to be one of literature's greatest travelling companions.

The third and final volume in Tony Lurcock's series of compilations of British eye-witness accounts of Finland from the mid-18th century.

During her many years in Iraq, Freya Stark was witness to the rise and fall of the British involvement in the country as well as the early years of independence.