Constantinople
Edmondo De Amicis
Published 1896
412 pages
Free exploration & adventure books
These are true stories of people who went to the edge. Polar expeditions, mountain climbs, ocean crossings, jungle treks and survival against the odds are told by those who were there or by writers who followed their trail. Gripping, humbling and often hard to put down. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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A Ride to Khiva
Frederick Burnaby
Published 1876
600 pages
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah
Richard Francis Burton
Published 1893
528 pages
The New American Practical Navigator
Nathaniel Bowditch, United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
Published 1817
678 pages
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
Henry Walter Bates
Published 1884
416 pages
Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon
William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon
Published 1853
500 pages
Voyager's Grand Tour
Henry C. Dethloff, Ronald Anthony Schorn
Published 2003
304 pages
A Year Amongst the Persians
Edward Granville Browne
Published 1893
618 pages
Around the World on a Bicycle
Thomas Stevens
Published 1887
612 pages
English traits
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Published 1883
308 pages
The Ascent of the Matterhorn
Edward Whymper
Published 1880
396 pages
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
John L. Stephens
1846 · 1871 edition
600 pages
In Darkest Africa, Or
Henry M. Stanley
Published 1890
552 pages
Lewis and Clark road trips
Kira Gale
Published 2006
268 pages
David Livingstone
Thomas Hughes
Published 1889
230 pages
The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway),a Young Indian Chief of the Ojebwa Nation, a Convert to the Christian Faith, and a Missionary to His People for Twelve Years
George Copway
Published 1847
242 pages
The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things Therein Contained
Leo Africanus, Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Richard Oosterhoff
Published 1896
360 pages
The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, Being His Next Voyage to that to Nombre de Dios
Francis Drake, Francis Fletcher
Published 1854
374 pages
Recollections of a Happy Life
Marianne North
Published 1894
368 pages
The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century
Antonio de Morga
Published 1869
394 pages
Christopher Columbus and how He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery
Justin Winsor
Published 1891
700 pages
Select Letters of Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
Published 1870
432 pages
Across East African Glaciers
Hans Meyer
Published 1891
494 pages
Five Years with the Congo Cannibals
Herbert Ward
Published 1890
334 pages