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The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol VIII, the November Number. It includes the following articles: Patagonia, by J. B. Hatcher Hatcher's Work in Patagonia, by W. J. McGee The Sushitna River, Alaska, by W. A. Dic...

Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who, from a very early age, devoted much of his free time to observing, discovering and documenting all aspects of the natural history of the Norfolk Broads, especially the area around Breydon Water near his home town of Great Y...

A delightful trip from Boston through a dozen South Shore towns to Plymouth, stopping in each to explore a bit of the local history and 'modern' highlights. Written in 1920, it's a great journey through the past. (Summary by Steve Mattern) ...

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the February Number. It includes the following articles:Venezuela: Her Government, People, and Boundary, by William E. CurtisThe Panama Canal Route, by Robert T. HillThe Tehuantepec Ship...

This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has been to draw attention to an immensity of almost unexplored mo...

Western novelist Zane Grey (1872-1939) also wrote nonfiction books about the American West and its country. This 1922 tribute to country he loved consists of narratives of six different trips to various parts of the West: Nonnesozhe, Colorado, Grand Canyon, Tonto Basin, Death V...

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the November Number. It includes the following articles:The Witwatersrand and the Revolt of the Uitlanders, by George F. BeckerThe Economic Aspects of Soil Erosion (Part 2) by Dr N. S. Shaler

A classic of victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey through the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his residence there in time of plague. [Summary by hefyd] ...

Description. History. “… those who read this book and have no opportunity of visiting the Tower expect that the characters in the moving drama of its history shall have some semblance of life as they walk across the stage…. My wish has been to persuade those who come to visit ...

Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chicago, Prince Edward Island, and Cincinatti. Her observations on the trials and tribulations of the journeys are astute, if formed by her place...

In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-Indian Imperialist visiting the USA, these American Notes offer an interesting view of America in the 1880s.Kipling affects a wide-ey...

National Geographic Magazine Volume 5, articles published in 1893. Contents:Discoverers of America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. HubbardThe Movements of our PopulationRainfall Types of the United States: Annual Report by Vice-President...