Dot Books.

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.

16 books

Through Finland in Carts

Through Finland in Carts

A lively Victorian travelogue journeying across Finland by horse and cart, observing its landscapes, customs, and people.

$8.00

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests

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

Impressions of South Africa

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

The Prairie Traveler

The Prairie Traveler

Randolph B.

$8.00

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled

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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India, Its Life and Thought

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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Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge

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

Following the Equator

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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The Story of Paris

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

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah

From Edinburgh to India & Burmah

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The Land of Thor

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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Roughing It

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

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

The Philippine Islands

The Philippine Islands

A wide-ranging account of the Philippine archipelago — its lands, peoples, and history.

$9.00

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

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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Life on the Mississippi

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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