Genre
Travel.
Chart a course through dusty memoirs and intrepid Victorian expeditions, where the Amazon, the Sahara, and the Mississippi unspool in all their untamed glory. Each shelfworn spine offers a ticket to a world before budget airlines—from Finnish carts to Tibetan prisons—delivered with the charm of a seasoned explorer’s fireside tale.
Non-fiction
Through Finland in Carts
A lively Victorian travelogue journeying across Finland by horse and cart, observing its landscapes, customs, and people.
$8.00
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Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
A nineteenth-century traveller's account of Peru, journeying from the coast up into the sierra, across the Andes and on into the primeval forest, rich in observation of landscape,
$8.00
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Impressions of South Africa
A traveller-observer's account of South Africa near the close of the nineteenth century, surveying its peoples, its politics and its landscape at a moment poised on the edge of gre
$8.00
History
The Prairie Traveler
Randolph B.
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Adventure
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled
Hudson Stuck's vivid record of winter journeys by dog sled across Alaska, a missionary-explorer's account of the far North, its trails, peoples and unforgiving cold.
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$8.00
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India, Its Life and Thought
A historically revealing survey of Indian society and religion, best read today with attention to its missionary-colonial perspective.
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$8.00
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Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge
A nineteenth-century polemical travel narrative journeying from the Alps to Rome, arguing a critical case about the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on commerce, law and lear
$8.00
Humor
Following the Equator
Mark Twain circles the globe on a lecture tour, notebook in hand, turning ocean crossings, colonial outposts and human folly into wry, watchful travel writing edged with anger.
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$8.00
History
The Story of Paris
A narrative history of Paris, tracing the city's growth from its origins through the centuries of its splendour.
$9.00
Non-fiction
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
W.
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The Land of Thor
A nineteenth-century traveller's account of journeys through the North, blending observation, incident, and wry humour.
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$9.00
Humor
Roughing It
Mark Twain's uproarious account of his years in the American West, from stagecoach and silver mine to newspaper desk.
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In the forbidden land : $b an account of a journey into Tibet, capture by the Tibetan lamas and soldiers, imprisonment
A gripping first-person account of a perilous journey into forbidden Tibet, ending in capture, imprisonment, and hardship at the hands of Tibetan authorities: a classic tale of exp
$9.00
History
The Philippine Islands
A wide-ranging account of the Philippine archipelago — its lands, peoples, and history.
$9.00
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Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
A nineteenth-century traveler's account of a journey across the Sahara, recording the landscapes, peoples, and hardships of the great desert.
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$9.00
Biography & Memoir
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain's rich memoir of learning the great river as a steamboat pilot, then returning years later to find both the Mississippi and America transformed.
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