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A Voyage to Terra Australis
Shipwrecked in the Coral Sea, he reaches Sydney in an open boat and ends up a prisoner of the French.
A Voyage to Terra Australis
Six years a captive on Île de France, his letters unanswered and his charts confiscated.
Journal of a Journey to Beijing
Setting out in autumn 1669, the high official Min Jeong-jung travels across Qing China all the way to Beijing.
The Journey of Prince Mohammed Ali Pasha to North America
Brother of the khedive, Egypt's Prince Muhammad Ali sets out to discover the United States.
Safarnama
In 1045, a Persian official leaves everything behind to seek what elevates the mind. Over seven years, Nasir Khusraw crosses Fatimid Cairo, Jerusalem, and Mecca: the first great travel journal of the medieval Muslim world.
Journey to Jerusalem and the Holy Land
Leaving Paris for Jerusalem in 1616, he returns home to the very day one year later.
Description of the Arduous Voyage Made Around the Universe or Terrestrial Globe
248 men leave Rotterdam, 45 return: the deadliest Dutch voyage around the world.
Journal of a Voyage in the Magellanic Sea
A Jesuit skirts the wild Patagonian coast, between missions and uncharted lands.
Letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha
In ten days of writing to his king, a Portuguese scribe gives birth to Brazil.
Count Duprat's Voyage to India
Hiding behind a false London imprint, Count Duprat publishes his own journey to India in 1780.
The Figure of the Earth
Four scholars set out onto the ice of the polar circle to measure the Earth, and their figure will change the image of the Earth.
My First Sea Voyage
On his first voyage, young Ver Huell reaches Brazil just as the Portuguese court flees there.
Sketches of a Missionary's Travels in Egypt, Syria, Western Africa
A missionary travels up the Nile and confronts fever, marabouts and tolerated slavery.
The Discoverers of the North Atlantic
Around 860, storm-driven Norse sailors discover Iceland. Erik the Red invents Greenland; his sons reach America five centuries before Columbus. A Viking odyssey carried by the figure of Gudrid.
A Russian Lieutenant in Ali Bey's Camp
August 1772, in the midst of the Russo-Turkish war: a twenty-year-old Russian lieutenant joins Ali Bey's camp beneath the walls of Jaffa, then travels on to Galilee. Travel journal, 1773.
Drake's Expedition to the West Indies
September 1585: Francis Drake sails from Plymouth with twenty-five sail to strike the Spanish empire in the West Indies. Captain Walter Bigges recounts this ten-month raid, from Santiago to Roanoke.
Log of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Providence
Two years after the Bounty, he dares to return to Tahiti for the breadfruit.
Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
Thackeray boards a steamer for the East and skewers the first tourists all the way to Cairo.
A Cruising Voyage Round the World
The corsair who rescued from a desert island the sailor who became the model for Robinson Crusoe.
Account of Two Voyages in the Southern Seas and the Indies
He promises the king a southern continent, finds frozen islands instead, and ends up in prison.
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