title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
In the Mahdi's Grasp | Fenn, George Manville, 1831-1909 | en | | | Speed, Lancelot, 1860-1931 [Illustrator] | Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Egypt -- Juvenile fiction; Gordon Relief Expedition (1884-1885) -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-03-28 |
Pathfinders of the West
Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who
Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye,
Lewis and Clark | Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936 | en | | | | Radisson, Pierre Esprit, ca. 1636-1710; La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de, 1685-1749; Hearne, Samuel, 1745-1792; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Northwest, Canadian -- Discovery and exploration | 2006-04-20 |
The Magnificent Adventure
Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and
the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman | Hough, Emerson, 1857-1923 | en | | | Keller, Arthur Ignatius, 1866-1924 [Illustrator] | Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) -- Fiction; Discoveries in geography -- Fiction; Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 -- Fiction; Explorers -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848 -- Fiction; Biographical fiction | 2009-10-20 |
Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark | Lighton, William R. (William Rheem), 1866-1923 | en | | | | Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809; Clark, William, 1770-1838; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) | 2008-10-04 |
South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition | Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 | en | | | | Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Travel; Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917); Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration | 2004-02-01 |
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay | Tench, Watkin, 1759-1833 | en | | | | Tench, Watkin, 1759?-1833 -- Diaries; Explorers -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Diaries; Voyages and travels; Botany Bay region (Australia) -- Description and travel; New South Wales -- Description and travel | 2006-05-08 |
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki
Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 | | en | | | | Soldiers -- United States -- Biography; World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia (Federation) -- Arkhangelʹsk; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States; Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Personal narratives, American; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Participation, American | 2007-09-05 |
The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes | | en | | Feodor Jagor's Travels in the Philippines (the out-of-print 1875 English translation corrected from the original German text) -- The state of the Philippines in 1810, by Tomas de Comyn (William Walton's 1821 translation modernized) -- Manila and Sulu in 1842, by Com. Chas. Wilkes (Narrative of U.S. exploring expedition 1838-42, v. 5) -- Manila in 1819, by Lieut. John White (from the "History of a voyage to the China Sea") -- The peopling of the Philippines, by Doctor Rudolf Virchow (O. T. Mason's translation; Smithsonian institution 1899 report) -- People and prospects of the Philippines, by an English merchant, 1778, and a consul, 1878 (from Blackwood's and the Cornhill magazine) -- Filipino merchants of the early 1890s, by F. Karuth. | Craig, Austin, 1872- [Editor] | | 2004-01-01 |
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy
A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. | Anonymous | en | | Adventures of Capt. Woodward and Five Seamen in the island of Celebes -- An Occurrence at sea -- Loss of H. B. M ship Phœnix, off Cuba -- An account of the Whale Fishery, with anecdotes of the dangers attending it -- Loss of the Brig Tyrrel -- Loss of the Peggy -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Litchfield -- Wreck of the Rothsay Castle Steamer -- Loss of the French ship Droits de L'Homme -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Queen Charlotte -- A Scene on the Atlantic Ocean -- Wreck of the French Frigate Medusa, on the Arguin Bank -- Loss of the Royal George -- Loss of the Æneas, transport -- The Absent Ship -- Loss of the Halsewell, East Indiaman -- An account of Four Russians, abandoned on the Island of East Spitzbergen -- Loss of the Amphitrite, Female Convict Ship -- The Mutineers, a Tale of the Sea -- Fate of Seven Sailors, left on the island of St. Maurice -- Seamen wintering in Spitzbergen -- A Man Overboard -- An Escape through the Cabin-Windows -- Tom Cringle's Log -- Loss of the Nautilus, Sloop of War -- Wreck of a Slave Ship -- The Wrecked Seamen -- Adventures of Philip Ashton -- Explosion of H. B. M. ship Amphion -- Loss of H. B. M. ship La Tribune -- Burning of the Prince, a French East Indiaman -- Wreck of the Schooner Betsey -- Early American Heroism -- Fingal's Cave -- Loss of H. B. M. ship Ramillies -- Preservation of Nine Seamen -- Capt. Ross's Expedition -- Loss of the Catharine, Venus, and Piedmont, transports, and three Merchant Ships -- Wreck of the Ship Sidney -- Loss of the Duke William, transport -- Commodore Barney -- Naval Battles of the United States -- Address to the Ocean. | | Shipwrecks; Mutiny; Pirates; Seafaring life | 2008-07-06 |