The Story of Marco Polo
Noah Brooks, Marco Polo
Published 1897
328 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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Voyages of Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain, Edmund F. Slafter, Mass. ) Prince Society (Boston
Published 1880
382 pages
“The” Life of Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe, 1480-1521
Francis Henry Hill Guillemard
Published 1890
414 pages
Goodna girls
Adele Chynoweth
Published 2020
157 pages
Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833
John Ross, James Clark Ross, Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret
Published 1835
474 pages
Madoc
Thomas Stephens
Published 1893
302 pages
Coomassie and Magdala
Henry Morton Stanley
Published 1874
430 pages
Cathay and the Way Thither
Henry Yule
Published 1866
534 pages
Surveying the Record
Edward C. Carter II
Published 1999
344 pages
La Salle
Stephanie Kuligowski
Published 2012
32 pages
The shortest and most convenient route
Bicentennial Conference for Lewis and Clark Philadelphia, Pa.)
Published 2004
255 pages
Indigenous intermediaries
Shino Konishi
Published 2015
205 pages
The Life of Las Casas
Arthur Helps
Published 1868
326 pages
The Voyages and Works of John Davis, the Navigator
Albert Hastings Markham
Published 1880
514 pages
The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
Hubert Howe Bancroft
1874 · 1889 edition
840 pages
The Gold Regions of South Eastern Africa
Thomas Baines
Published 1877
282 pages
Narrative and Critical History of America
Justin Winsor
1881 · 1888 edition
658 pages
On the South African Frontier
William Harvey Brown
Published 1899
540 pages
Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society
J. C. Beaglehole
1847 · 1851 edition
298 pages
History of the Conquest of Mexico
William Hickling Prescott
Published 1843
556 pages
Across Africa
Verney Lovett Cameron
Published 1877
454 pages
Fourteen Months in Canton
MRS. GRAY
Published 1880
516 pages
Impressions and Experiences
William Dean Howells
Published 1896
306 pages
Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa
William John Burchell
Published 1824
690 pages