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Set out across rivers, coasts, kingdoms, and continents in a collection where every mile holds a new wonder. From Mark Twain’s wry wanderings to grand voyages around the globe and vivid encounters in Persia, Africa, Spain, and the far North, these travel tales turn the world into a stage of danger, discovery, and delight. Open a book, and the journey begins before the horizon can catch its breath.

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Richard Ligon

by Guido Gozzano

by Carl Ethan Akeley

by Hilaire Belloc

by John L. Stephens

by Frances Milton Trollope

by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

by John McDouall Stuart

by John L. Stephens

by Nancy Prince

by active 12th century of Tudela Benjamin

by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

by Gérard de Nerval

by James Bruce

by David Wynford Carnegie

by Alfred Russel Wallace

by W. C. Morrow, Edward Cucuel

by William Dampier

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by Harry Alverson Franck

by Henry James

by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

by Cambrensis Giraldus

by Lady Hester Stanhope

by Truman Everts

by Harriet Martineau

by Alain Gerbault

by Lady Maria Callcott

by Richard Hakluyt

by Henry Walter Bates

by George Whitfield Ray

by Mary Gaunt

by C. G. (Carl Georg) Schillings

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Edmondo De Amicis

by J. H. (James Henry) Kerry-Nicholls

by Edmondo De Amicis

by Dallas Lore Sharp

by Nathaniel Pitt Langford

by Jack Lait, Lee Mortimer

by George Wharton James

by George Sand

by Alexander von Humboldt

by Arthur Achleitner

by James Cook

by Mina Hubbard

by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

by Adriaan van der Willigen

by Charles Dickens

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by F. (Friedrich) Höhne

by T. (Tobias) Smollett

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by Various Authors

by T. (Tobias) Smollett

by François Crastre

by Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada

by Ferdinand Gregorovius

by Anne Grenfell, Katie Spalding

by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

by Octave Mirbeau

by Visconde de João Batista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett Almeida Garrett

by John Wesley Powell

by Lafcadio Hearn

by Rudyard Kipling

by Richard Hakluyt

by Elisée Reclus

by Gerhard Rohlfs

by Mark Twain

by Fridtjof Nansen

by Clare Howard

by Theodore Roosevelt

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

by Elias Haffter

by Sven Anders Hedin

by Edward Whymper

by George Bethune English

by George Borrow

by Frederick Albert Cook

by Karl Philipp Moritz

by Various Authors

by Susan Swain Madders

by Hongzu Xu

by Douglas William Freshfield