Welcome to Explorion. This site is about travel and exploration. You can find here historical travelogues, full texts of classic books, journals of discovery and personal adventures by authors as diverse as Marco Polo, Cabeza de Vaca, Samuel de Champlain, Alexander von Humboldt, Richard F. Burton, David Livingstone, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn, Theodore Roosevelt and many more. Explore our digital library by author, volume or geographic location and see the world through the eyes and words of great writers and voyagers.
- Carl Lumholtz - Through Central Borneo
- Charles Dickens - Pictures from Italy
- G. Whitfield Ray - Through Five Republics on Horseback
- John F. Davis - California Romantic and Resourceful
- John Lewis Burckhardt - Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
- Johanna S. Wisthaler - By Water to the Columbian Exposition
- J. W. Powell - Canyons of the Colorado
- Matilda Betham-Edwards - East of Paris
- Maurice Hewlett - Earthwork Out Of Tuscany
- Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan, 1
- Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan, 2
- Matilda Betham-Edwards - Holidays in Eastern France
- Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, 10
- Harry A. Franck - Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras
- Edward Winslow Martin - The Secrets Of The Great City
- C. J. Cornish - The Naturalist on the Thames
- Mary FitzGibbon - A Trip to Manitoba
- Percival Lowell - Noto, An Unexplored Corner of Japan
- Lafcadio Hearn - Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
- Ernest Scott - Terre Napoleon
- Catherine Sager Pringle - Across the Plains in 1844
- Albrecht Durer - Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
- Cabeza de Vaca - Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
- Algot Lange - In The Amazon Jungle
- Athanasius Nikitin of Twer - Voyage to India
- H. Wilfrid Walker - Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines
- J. Walker McSpadden - The Spell of Egypt
- Francis Parkman - The Oregon Trail
- William Pember Reeves - The Long White Cloud
- H.P. Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
- Frank T. Bullen - The Cruise of the Cachalot. Round the World After Sperm Whales
- J. Wells - The Charm of Oxford
- Mary King Waddington - Chateau and Country Life in France
- Richard Harding Davis - The Congo and Coasts of Africa
- Walter E. Traprock - The Cruise of the Kawa. Wanderings in the South Seas
- John Hanning Speke - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
- John Benwell - An Englishman's Travels in America
- A. W. Kinglake - Eothen
- Ernest Scott - The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
- Bradford Torrey - A Florida Sketch-Book
- William Henry Hudson - The Famous Missions of California
- Isabella L. Bird - The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither
- Lord Dufferin - Letters From High Latitudes
- Hiram Bingham - Inca Land
- Edith Wharton - In Morocco
- Lafcadio Hearn - Kokoro
- Bayard Taylor - The Lands of the Saracen
- Frederic Hamilton - Here, There And Everywhere
- Arthur Kitson - The Life of Captain James Cook
- Ernest Scott - Laperouse
- C. C. Andrews - Minnesota and Dacotah
- Henry Adams - Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
- James Cox - My Native Land. The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People
- Anthony Trollope - North America, 1
- Anthony Trollope - North America, 2
- J. A. Graves - Out of Doors - California and Oregon
- Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa - The Travels of Marco Polo, 1
- Constance Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest
- Frederick S. Dellenbaugh - The Romance of the Colorado River
- George Turner - Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before
- Edwin Bryant - What I Saw in California
- Lilian Bell - As Seen by Me
- Joshua Slocum - Sailing Alone Around The World
- G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade - Somerset
- Ella M. Sexton - Stories of California
- Don Carlos Janes - A Trip Abroad. An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan and the Land of the Ancient Pharaohs
- Charles P. Moritz - Travels in England in 1782
- Richard Jefferies - The Open Air
- Dillon Wallace - The Lure of the Labrador Wild
- Arnold Bennett - Your United States. Impressions of a First Visit
- John Oxley - Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
- E. V. Lucas - A Wanderer in Florence
- E. V. Lucas - A Wanderer in Holland
- William Priest - Travels in the United States of America. With The Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic
- Mary H. Kingsley - Travels in West Africa
- Roald Amundsen - The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912, 1
- Roald Amundsen - The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912, 2
- Henry David Thoreau - An Excursion to Canada
- Henry James - Italy Revisited