Diary of a Journey Through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892
William Woodville Rockhill
Published 1894
508 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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The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher
Richard Collinson
Published 1867
418 pages
Peter Stuyvesant, Director-general for the West India Company in New Netherland
Bayard Tuckerman
Published 1898
216 pages
Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores
David Murray Smith
Published 1877
932 pages
Life of Sir John Franklin and the North-west Passage
Albert Hastings Markham
Published 1891
374 pages
Following the Guidon
Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Published 1890
398 pages
Three Gringos in Venezuela and Central America
Richard Harding Davis
Published 1896
312 pages
Great Explorers Before Columbus
John Reade
Published 1883
38 pages
A Search for Fortune
Hamilton Lindsay-Bucknall
Published 1878
526 pages
Famous Travels and Travellers
Jules Verne, Dora Leigh
Published 1879
692 pages
The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
Jules Verne
Published 1887
662 pages
John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America, and Sebastian, His Son
Henry Harrisse
Published 1896
574 pages
Minnesota Explorers and Pioneers from A.D. 1659 to A.D. 1858
Edward Duffield Neill
Published 1881
148 pages
In Darkest Africa
Henry Morton Stanley
Published 1890
744 pages
Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries
Meyer Kayserling
Published 1894
216 pages
The Landfall of Leif Erikson, A.D. 1000
Eben Norton Horsford
Published 1892
248 pages
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
Hubert Howe Bancroft
1874 · 1886 edition
830 pages
Meeting the Sun
William Simpson
Published 1874
612 pages
Fusang, Or, The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century
Charles Godfrey Leland
Published 1875
248 pages
Life in the Forests of the Far East
St. John, Spenser Sir
Published 1862
453 pages
Camping and Tramping in Malaya
Ambrose B. Rathborne
Published 1898
364 pages
The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a Northwest Passage, in 1631-32
Luke Foxe
Published 1894
528 pages
The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622
Clements R. Markham, William Baffin
Published 1881
284 pages
History of the Voyages and Discoveries Made in the North
Johann Reinhold Forster
Published 1786
564 pages