Travel audiobooks

Een cultuurhistorisch verslag van een wandeling langs de Vecht te beginnen in Utrecht en eindigend bij Loenen aan de Vecht. uit Wandelingen door Nederland met pen en potlood, Deel 2. Samenvatting: Marcel Coenders

This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59, April, 1855, pp 577 - 600.

In the Introduction to Camping and Woodcraft, Horace Kephart wrote: “My one aim in writing this little book is to make it of practical service to those who seek rest or sport in the wilderness, or whose business calls them thither.” The author further described the content of this book: “In the following chapters I offer some suggestions on outfitting, making camps, dressing and keeping game and fish, camp cookery, forest travel, how to avoid getting lost, and what to do if one does get lost, living off the country, what the different species of trees are good for (from a camper's viewpoint), backwoods handicrafts in wood, bark, skins and other raw materials, the treatment of wounds and o...

In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were attacked at night, dragged into the wilderness, and devoured by two male lions.

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is the autobiographical account of Royal Engineer Lt. Col. J.H. Patterson's African adventures. Among them, his hunt for the two man-eaters.

This book was the basis for the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness.

Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, so it is concerned with the period of mid to late nineteenth century rural Wiltshire, a county in England. This pleasant engaging book contains rural wisdom, natural history, farming practices, human characters, and more

National Geographic Magazine Volume 5, articles published in 1893. Contents:

• Discoverers of America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubbard
• The Movements of our Population
• Rainfall Types of the United States: Annual Report by Vice-President General A. W. Greely
• The Natural Bridge of Virginia
• The geographical Position and Height of Mount Saint Elias
• The Improvement of Geographical Teaching
• An undiscovered Island off the northern Coast of Alaska
• The Geologist at Blue Mountain, Maryland
• The great populous Centers of the World
• Our youngest Volcano
• Proceedings of the Internationa...

This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century.

National Geographic Magazine Volume 6, articles published from January, 1894, to May, 1895.

• Geographic Progress of Civilization - Annual Address by the President Honorable Gardiner G. Hubbard
• Shawangunk Mountain, by N. H. Darton
• Weather Making, Ancient and Modern, by Mark W. Harrington
• Geomorphology of the Southern Appalachians, by Charles Willard Hayes and Marius R. Campbell
• The Battle of the Forest, by B. E. Fernow
• Surveys and Maps of the District of Columbia, by Marcus Baker
• The first Landfall of Columbus, by Jacques W. Redway, F. R. G. S.
• Japan, by D.W. Stevens
• Geography of the Air, Annual Address by the...

Schweinfurth trat 1868 im Auftrag der Humboldt-Stiftung in Berlin eine große Reise nach Afrika an. 1869 reiste er von Khartum aus nilaufwärts nach Faschoda und nach dem Gebiet der Dschur. Mit Sklavenjägern immer weiter vordringend, durchzog er die Länder der Bongo, Schilluk, Nuer und der Dinka, unternahm eine Reise zu den menschenfressenden Niam-Niam, besuchte das Land der Mittu und Madi und entdeckte im Lande der bis dahin noch unbekannten, ebenfalls kannibalischen Monbuttu, den Uellefluß (Uelle-Makua (Ubangi)). Ebenso gewann er sichere Kunde von dem Zwergvolk der Akka. Nach Überwindung der größten Schwierigkeiten traf er im Juli 1871 wieder wohlbehalten in Khartum ein. “Die von ihm e...

National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 1 April 1890.:

• On the Telegraphic Determinations of Longitude by the Bureau of Navigation
• Report: Geography of the Land
• Report: Geography of the Air

National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 2 May 1890.:

• The Rivers of Northern New Jersey, with notes on the classification of rivers in general.
• A Critical Review of Bering's First Expedition, 1725-30, together with a translation of his original Report upon it.
• Supplementary note on the alleged observation of a Lunar Eclipse by Bering in 1728-9.