Found 4,852 results for "North america, description and travel"
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...
King Solomon's Mines
by H. Rider Haggard
It is a curious thing that at my age-fifty-five last birthday-I should find myself taking up a pen to try and write a hi...
A Tramp Abroad
by Mark Twain
One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventuro...
The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
by Hubert Howe Bancroft
When it first became known to Europe that a new continent had been discovered, the wise men, philosophers, and especiall...
North America
by Anthony Trollope
It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit...
The Hudson Bay Company
by Robert Michael Ballantyne, Thomas Nelson and Sons
Reader, -I take for granted that you are tolerably well acquainted with the different modes of life and travelling pecul...
Away in the wilderness
by Robert Michael Ballantyne, Madiso Clark
On a beautiful summer evening, not many years ago, a man was seen to ascend the side of a little mound or hillock, on th...
The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the ...
by Richard Hakluyt, Jack Beeching
It hath almost euer bene the custome of nations, in searching out the infancie and first beginnings of their estate, to ...
The Maine Woods
by Henry David Thoreau
On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railro...
Far away and long ago
by W. H. Hudson
IT was never my intention to write an autobiography.
