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The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
An intrepid explorer who earned his living by collecting bird skins, Wallace also catalogued the vast number of plant and animal species that inhabited this unique geographical area. In addition he includes numerous observations on the people, their languages, and ways of living and social organisation ...Show more
The Road to Angkor by Christopher Pym; Philip Coggan (Foreword by)
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
The Road to Angkor describes a journey through Indo-China from the ancient capital of Champa (now south Vietnam) to Angkor, capital of the old Khmer empire in Cambodia. Christopher Pym originally went to Indo-China in 1956. He stayed 20 months and during 1957 made the seven-week journey described in thi ...Show more
The Voyage of the Beagle (Stanfords Travel Classics) by Charles Darwin
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
Charles Darwin joined HMS Beagle when he was just 22 at the request of Captain FitzRoy, who wanted to have a naturalist on board. The ship set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 and returned nearly five years later on 2 October 1836. The journey took Darwin from the Cape de Verde Islands to Ma ...Show more
Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
"We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world-all, too, travellers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879)Travels with a Do ...Show more
Travels in Egypt and Nubia by Giovanni Belzoni; Giovanni Battista Belzoni; Trevor Naylor (Foreword by)
Category: Travel Narrative | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
Travels in Egypt and Nubia is the travel journal of Giovanni Belzoni, and tells the story of three journeys made between 1815 and 1819, describing magical monuments, such as the temple at Abu Simbel, the pyramid at Khafre and the tomb of Seti I.
Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Mungo Park set off from his home in the Scottish borders in May 1795 at the age of 23 to discover the course of the River Niger in West Africa. When he reappeared in England more than two and a half years later, he had been presumed dead, and the tale of his perilous journey published in 1799 was greete ...Show more