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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 Arabia
• 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
• Henry Blanc - A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia
• Matilda Betham-Edwards - East of Paris
• Maurice Hewlett - Earthwork Out Of Tuscany
• Isabella Lucy Bird - The Englishwoman in America
• Richard F. Burton - First footsteps in East Africa
• John Ruskin - Mornings in Florence
• Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan, 1
• Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan, 2
• Richard F. Burton - To the Gold Coast for Gold
• Richard F. Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, 1
• Richard F. Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, 2
• Henry Inman - The Great Salt Lake Trail
• Matilda Betham-Edwards - Holidays in Eastern France
• Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, 1
• Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, 2
• Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, 3
• Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, 4
• Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, 8
• Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, 9
• Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, 10
• Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, 11
• Richard Hakluyt - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, 12
• Oliver Wendell Holmes - Our Hundred Days in Europe
• Henry James - Italian Hours
• Thomas Mitchell - Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
• Frances Calderon De La Barca - Life in Mexico
• Harry A. Franck - Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras
• Richard F. Burton - The Land of Midian, 1
• Richard F. Burton - The Land of Midian, 2
• Gordon Home - Normandy. The Scenery & Romance of its Ancient Towns
• Norman Douglas - Old Calabria
• Francis W. Blagdon - Paris As It Was and As It Is
• W. H. Hudson - The Naturalist in La Plata
• Michael Russell - Palestine or the Holy Land
• Matilda Betham-Edwards - The Roof of France
• E.V. Lucas - Roving East and Roving West
• Andrew Carnegie - Round the World
• Edward Winslow Martin - The Secrets Of The Great City
• Francis W. Halsey - Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, 1
• Francis W. Halsey - Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, 2
• Francis W. Halsey - Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, 5
• Francis W. Halsey - Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, 6
• W. P. Livingstone - Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
• E. J. Banfield - Tropic Days
• 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
• Theodore Roosevelt - Through the Brazilian Wilderness
• Ernest Scott - Terre Napoleon
• Mungo Park - Travels in Central Africa
• S. Baring-Gould - In Troubador-Land
• A. Kippis - Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook
• Samuel de Champlain - Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1
• Samuel de Champlain - Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 2
• Samuel de Champlain - Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 3
• Matilda Betham-Edwards - In the Heart of the Vosges
• Charles Waterton - Wanderings In South America
• Gordon Home - Yorkshire
• Gordon Home - Canterbury
• Samuel White Baker - Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
• Samuel White Baker - The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources
• 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
• Daniel Knower - The Adventures of a Forty-niner
• W.E. Frye - After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819
• Algot Lange - In The Amazon Jungle
• Isabella L. Bird - Among the Tibetans
• Athanasius Nikitin of Twer - Voyage to India
• G.E. Morrison - An Australian in China
• John Pinkerton - Early Australian Voyages
• H. Wilfrid Walker - Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines
• John Muir - The Yosemite
• David Livingstone - The Zambesi Expedition
• J.H. Patterson - The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures
• J. Walker McSpadden - The Spell of Egypt
• Francis Parkman - The Oregon Trail
• Thomas Wright - The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian
• William Pember Reeves - The Long White Cloud
• Randolph Barnes Marcy - The Prairie Traveler
• Joseph Ladue - Klondyke Nuggets
• Pierre Loti - Egypt (La Mort De Philae)
• Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle, 1
• Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle, 2
• Albert Ernest Jenks - The Bontoc Igorot
• Joseph E. Morris - Beautiful Europe - Belgium
• T. B. Ray - Brazilian Sketches
• William Bartram - Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East &West Florida,the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws
• William Nowlin - The Bark Covered House
• William E. Hutchinson - Byways Around San Francisco Bay
• Joseph Carey - By the Golden Gate
• S. M. Edwardes - By-Ways of Bombay
• J. Tyrwhitt Brooks - California. Four Months among the Gold-Finders
• H.P. Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
• Theresa Gowanlock and Theresa Delaney - Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear
• Stephen Leacock - The Mariner of St Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier
• Frank T. Bullen - The Cruise of the Cachalot. Round the World After Sperm Whales
• John Hay - Castilian Days
• James Emerson Tennent - Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions -1
• Robert Knox - An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies
• J. Wells - The Charm of Oxford
• Mary King Waddington - Chateau and Country Life in France
• Lafcadio Hearn - Chita : A Memory of Last Island
• Phillip Parker King - Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia
• Richard Harding Davis - The Congo and Coasts of Africa
• H.M. Tomlinson - Cote d'Or
• J. Arthur Gibbs - A Cotswold Village
• Walter E. Traprock - The Cruise of the Kawa. Wanderings in the South Seas
• Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews - Camps and Trails in China
• Albert Gardner Robinson - Cuba, Old and New
• Samuel W. Baker - Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879
• Thomas de Quincey - Ceylon and China
• Charles Pye - A Description of Modern Birmingham
• John Hanning Speke - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
• Nathaniel Pitt Langford - The Discovery of Yellowstone Park
• Eliza Donner Houghton - The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
• William Henry Knight - Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet
• Walter Biggs - Drake's Great Armada
• Richard Hakluyt - The Discovery of Muscovy and Other Histories
• William Lewis Manly - Death Valley in '49
• John McDouall Stuart - Explorations in Australia
• John Benwell - An Englishman's Travels in America
• A. W. Kinglake - Eothen
• John Forrest - Explorations in Australia
• Ernest Favenc - The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work
• Philip Nichols - Sir Francis Drake Revived
• Francis Pretty - Francis Drake's Voyage Round the World
• Ernest Scott - The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
• Bradford Torrey - A Florida Sketch-Book
• William Henry Hudson - The Famous Missions of California
• Nathaniel H. Bishop - Four Months in a Sneak-Box. A Boat Voyage of 2600 miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf Of Mexico
• J.W. Robertson Scott - The Foundations of Japan
• Charles Warren Stoddard - In the Footprints of the Padres
• Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Charles Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow - The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes
• Nathaniel Hawthorne - Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks
• Fred Brandt and Andrew Y. Wood - Fascinating San Francisco
• Isabella L. Bird - The Golden Chersonese and The Way Thither
• Isabella L. Bird - The Hawaiian Archipelago
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 1
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 2
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 3
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 4
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 5
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 6
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 7
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 8
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 9
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 10
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 13
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 14
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 15
• Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 18
• Walter Raleigh - The Discovery of Guiana
• F. W. Up de Graff - Head Hunters of the Amazon
• Edward Hayes - Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
• Henry M. Stanley - How I Found Livingstone
• Lord Dufferin - Letters From High Latitudes
• J. D. Hooker - Himalayan Journals
• Hiram Bingham - Inca Land
• Edith Wharton - In Morocco
• Samuel W. Baker - Ismailia. A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the Slave Trade
• Samuel White Baker - In the Heart of Africa
• William Dean Howells - Italian Journeys
• James Boswell - The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
• Samuel Johnson - Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
• John Franklin - The Journey to the Polar Sea
• Lafcadio Hearn - Kokoro
• Noah Brooks - First Across the Continent. The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6
• Bayard Taylor - The Lands of the Saracen
• Robert Huish - Lander's Travels. Travels of Richard and John Lander into the Interior of Africa for the Discovery of the Course and Termination of the Niger
• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark - The Journals of Lewis and Clark
• T. R. Swinburne - A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
• Frederic Hamilton - Here, There And Everywhere
• Felix Moscheles - In Bohemia with Du Maurier
• John Burroughs - In the Catskills
• Benjamin of Tudela - The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
• Gregory Blaxland - The Journal of Gregory Blaxland, 1813
• Sydney Gibbs - A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the Year 1813
• W.D. Fellowes - A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817
• Lucy Duff-Gordon - Letters from the Cape
• William Cullen Bryant - Letters of a Traveller
• Arthur Kitson - The Life of Captain James Cook
• Geneve L.A. Shaffer- The Log of the Empire State
• Ernest Scott - Laperouse
• George Wharton James - The Lake of the Sky - Lake Tahoe. In the High Sierras of California and Nevada
• Lawrence Beesley - The Loss of the SS Titanic
• Rupert Brooke - Letters from America
• Mary Wollstonecraft - Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
• Charles Mair - Through the Mackenzie Basin. A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899
• J. E. Howard - Memoir of William Watts McNair
• Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years With the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
• Azel Ames - The Mayflower and Her Log
• C. C. Andrews - Minnesota and Dacotah
• Henry Adams - Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
• William Eleroy Curtis - Modern India
• John Muir - The Mountains of California
• James H. McClintock - Mormon Settlement in Arizona
• David Livingstone - Travels and Researches in South Africa
• Robert H. Elliot - Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting In Mysore
• John MacGillivray - Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake
• W. H. Hudson - Nature in Downland
• James Cox - My Native Land. The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People
• James Inglis - Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier
• David Collins - An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, 1
• David Collins - An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, 2
• John Lawson - A New Voyage to Carolina
• John Aubrey - The Natural History of Wiltshire
• Samuel W. Baker - The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs
• Henry C. Shelley - Inns and Taverns of Old London
• Charles Nordhoff - Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
• William Edward Parry - Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, 1
• William Edward Parry - Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, 2
• Dawson Turner - Account of a Tour in Normandy, 1
• Dawson Turner - Account of a Tour in Normandy, 2
• Anthony Trollope - North America, 1
• Anthony Trollope - North America, 2
• Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons
• Margaret Dixon McDougall - The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland
• Thomas Belt - The Naturalist in Nicaragua
• Arthur E. Knights - Notes by the Way in a Sailor's Life
• Richard Hakluyt - Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
• Joseph Corry - Observations upon the Windward Coast of Africa
• Emma Roberts - Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay
• William R. Lighton - Omaha, the Prairie City
• Gustave Flaubert - Over Strand and Field. A Record of Travel through Brittany
• J. A. Graves - Out of Doors - California and Oregon
• Richard Francis Burton - Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa - The Travels of Marco Polo, 1
• Constance Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest
• N. H. Bishop - Voyage of The Paper Canoe. A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5
• Charles Hose and William McDougall - The Pagan Tribes of Borneo, 1
• Newton H. Chittenden - Official report of the exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the government of British Columbia
• Alexander von Humboldt - Equinoctial Regions of America, 1
• Alexander von Humboldt - Equinoctial Regions of America, 2
• Alexander von Humboldt - Equinoctial Regions of America, 3
• S. A. Ferrall - A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
• Montague Massey - Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century
• Lilyan Stratton - Reno. A Book of Short Stories and Information
• J. Fenimore Cooper - A Residence in France
• Harry De Windt - A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan
• Samuel Sidney - Rides on Railways
• Samuel White Baker - The Rifle and The Hound in Ceylon
• Frederick S. Dellenbaugh - The Romance of the Colorado River
• George Turner - Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before
• William John Wills - Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
• William H. Gilder - Schwatka's Search. Sledging in the Artic in Quest of the Franklin Records
• R. F. Scott - Scott's Last Expedition, 1
• Edric Holmes - Seaward Sussex
• W. Blanchard Jerrold - How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
• Edwin Bryant - What I Saw in California
• Lilian Bell - As Seen by Me
• Joshua Slocum - Sailing Alone Around The World
• Anthony Benezet - Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants
• G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade - Somerset
• W. D. Howells - Familiar Spanish Travels
• John Muir - Stickeen
• Lady Barker - Station Life in New Zealand
• Lady Barker - Station Amusements in New Zealand
• Ella M. Sexton - Stories of California
• Lafcadio Hearn - A Strange Tale of Cannibalism
• Washinton Irving - Astoria; Or, Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains
• John Muir - Steep Trails. California-Utah-Nevada-Washington-Oregon-The Grand Canyon
• John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece
• Don Carlos Janes - A Trip Abroad. An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan and the Land of the Ancient Pharaohs
• Elmer U. Hoenshel - My Three Days In Gilead
• Charles P. Moritz - Travels in England in 1782
• E. L. Kolb - Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico
• Richard Jefferies - The Open Air
• George Kennan - Tent Life in Siberia
• Dillon Wallace - The Lure of the Labrador Wild
• Arthur Jerome Eddy - Two Thousand Miles On An Automobile
• John Mandeville - The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
• Richard Boyle Bernard - A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium
• George H. Heffner - The Youthful Wanderer. An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
• Arnold Bennett - Your United States. Impressions of a First Visit
• Charles Sturt - Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia
• John Oxley - Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
• Mina Benson Hubbard - A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
• Ida Pfeiffer - A Woman's Journey Round the World
• S.H. Hammond - Wild Northern Scenes
• W.D. Howells - Roman Holidays and Others
• E. V. Lucas - A Wanderer in Florence
• E. V. Lucas - A Wanderer in Holland
• Elihu Burritt - A Walk from London to John O'Groat's
• Charles Turley - The Voyages of Captain Scott
• James Richardson - Travels in Morocco, 1
• James Richardson - Travels in Morocco, 2
• John Buffa - Travels through the Empire of Morocco
• William Priest - Travels in the United States of America. With The Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic
• John Muir - Travels in Alaska
• Archer B. Hulbert - The Paths of Inland Commerce
• Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton - Travels in England
• Mary H. Kingsley - Travels in West Africa
• Isabella L. Bird - Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
• Charles Darwin - The Voyage of the Beagle
• Peter Esprit Radisson - Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson
• Richard Hakluyt - Voyager's Tales
• J. Bayard Taylor - Views a-foot. Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
• Stephen Graham - A Tramp's Sketches
• 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
• Tobias Smollett - Travels through France and Italy
• E. Ernest Bilbrough - Twixt France and Spain. A Spring in the Pyrenees
• Annie Allnut Brassey - A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam. Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
• James Holman - A Voyage Round the World, 1
• Ida Pfeiffer - Visit to Iceland
• Edward Harrison Barker - Wanderings by Southern Waters, Eastern Aquitaine
• Edric Holmes - Wanderings in Wessex
• Joseph Sturge - A Visit to the United States in 1841
• R.M. Ballantyne - Up in the Clouds
• Henry David Thoreau - An Excursion to Canada
• Henry James - Italy Revisited
• Henry James - From Normandy to the Pyrenees