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Travel & Geography Archive: Public-Domain Books on Exploration and Places
This archive brings together one hundred public-domain travel narratives and geographical writings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection spans firsthand accounts by explorers, settlers, journalists, and tourists who documented landscapes and customs across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. With four overlapping categories—Travel Narratives, Geography, Exploration, and Places Peoples—the catalogue offers multiple entry points. For example, a reader interested in the Mediterranean could follow a route from George Gissing's By the Ionian Sea to Norman Douglas's Old Calabria and D. H. Lawrence's Twilight in Italy. Each record includes title, author, source, subjects, and a note, with texts sourced from Project Gutenberg.
100 public-domain works108 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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A narrative of travels in northe...
Authored by Authors: Lyon, G. F. (George Franc..., 'A narrative of travels in northe...' stands as a notable and significant work within the Geography category. Captain G. F. Lyon's 1821 travelogue recounts his mission from Tripoli to Morzouk and back, marked by the death of his companion Mr. Ritchie, with precise observations of Fezzan's landscape, temperature readings, and the author's struggle to continue amid illness and dwindling resources. Discover the unique thematic elements that make this specific work highly regarded.
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Notes taken during travels in Af...
In Geography
Travels into Bokhara (Volume 3 o...
In Geography
Travels through the states of No...
In Geography
Travels in Nova Scotia in the Ye...
In Geography
Travels Into Bokhara (Volume 2 o...
In Geography
The Boy Travellers in Mexico Adv...
In Geography
The Burton Holmes Lectures, Volu...
In Geography
Our Western Hills: How to reach ...
In Geography
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