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African road trip. Two strangers making a road trip from Sweden and crossing Europe and Africa. Under constant threats of terrorism, epidemic, and rebel soldiers. The two friends …
Vikings is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer. The volume presents a historical account of Scandinavian civilisation during the Viking period, taking the term 'Viking' …
Mungo Park was an explorer of the real kind. In 1795, only aged 24, he left Gambia for the uncharted interior of Africa, in a journey that would be filled with tragedy, heroism, …
In 1954 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post- war London for Greece. Moving first to the tiny island of Kalymnos they then settled on Hydra and …
James Norman Hall (USA, 1887-1951) and Charles Nordhoff (USA, 1887-1947) Faery Lands of the South Seas (1920) Reader: Mike Vendetti Returning from the horrors of World War I James …
Tutankhamun - The Discovery of His Tomb by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith tells the exiting story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt, 1922.Never before in the history …
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is a book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the …
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the …
“Few persons except astronomers fully realise that of all the planets of the Solar system the only one whose solid surface has been seen with certainty is Mars.”In 1907, Alfred …
Typee; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual …