Globe, Arctic, Antarctica

Originally published in 1865, ‘Cape Cod’ chronicles Henry David Thoreau’s journey of discovery in the early 1850s along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline, during which time he came to …

Prior to the collapse of Communism and the break-up of the Eastern-bloc empire of the U.S.S.R., a humorist and fledgling Kremlinologist was invited to tour the vast Red Landscape. Along the rails and …

John Muir relates the story of his 1881 voyage aboard the steamer Thomas Corwin, which set sail from San Francisco for arctic waters off the coast of Alaska in search of a ship tragically lost two ye …

Men go out into the void spaces of the world for various reasons. Some are incited simply by a love of adventure, some have a keen thirst for scientific knowledge, and others are drawn away from trod …

The World Set Free – H. G. Wells – The book is based on a prediction of nuclear weapons of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort than the world has yet seen. It had appeared first in serialised …

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe – The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular prede …

Tragedies of Cañon Blanco is the recollections of Cavalry officer Carter, who chased the Comanches in the Texas Panhandle in the mid 19th century. …

A blacksmith and a tobacco smuggler, Noah Smithwick made weapons for the Battle of Concepcion, and he fought in that battle. With Hensley’s company, he chased the Mexican army south of the Rio Grande …

Journal of a Trapper is one of the most important first hand accounts of the mountain man era. In it, Russell provides a detailed narrative describing the day-to-day life of an ordinary trapper in th …

Eliza Farnham (November 17, 1815 – December 15, 1864) was a 19th-century American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform. …