04/09/2024
Italian Hours
A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. – Summary by barbara2 [chương_files]
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04/09/2024
Going Abroad? Some Advice
Going abroad for a holiday or business is always exciting, but we can only imagine how exciting it would have been in 1900 to board a steamer from the United States and take a tour through Europe. Luckily Robert Luce gives advice in this book about how to get around, where to stay, what to see, and generally how to make the journey a success. – Summary by Carolin [chương_files]
04/09/2024
North Lancashire
Cambridge County Geographies was a 75 volume series covering the counties of England, Scotland and Wales. Separate volumes were produced for Lancashire north and south of the River Ribble. J. E. Marr’s volume on North Lancashire covers a geographically diverse region, including Furness and the Lake District west of Lake Windermere that now spans Lancashire and Cumbria. As much a history, guidebook and gazetteer as it is a geography, Marr’s volume paints a rich and in places idyllic picture of the northern parts of the county in the years before the first world war. – Summary by Phil Benson [chương_files]
03/09/2024
Lift-Luck on Southern Roads
Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southern counties of England, and was conceived on an unusual plan. To keep clear of the main roads, and, with two exceptions, the great towns; seeking out the least frequented lanes and by-paths. I covered the whole two-hundred-mile stretch of the way, with camera and pack at surprisingly little expense, by means of lifts taken in any chance vehicle that might be faring in my direction. My plan consisted in waiting by the roadside, or strolling gently onward until something on wheels, it mattered not what, overtook me. And thus by fits and starts – slow joltings in lumbering farm-waggons, steady crawls in brewers’ drays, quiet hours on the tail-boards of pantechnicons and a momentous evening in a missionary van – I found myself, after many days of travel, at my journey’s end in drowsy Arundel and a great and all but resistless longing to turn about there and then, and do the journey all over again. (From: Lift-Luck on Southern Roads) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This book is considered to be one of the very first to document the concept of hitchhiking as a method of travelling to your destination by asking to ride in various stranger’s vehicles for different sections of your journey. So then, why not join Mr […]
03/09/2024
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: Africa
Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over 100 years ago. Covering the continent by steamer and train and other more primitive means of transport, the reader will enjoy learning of African life long before knowledge of this continent was available to most people throughout the world. Summary by BettyB. Note: This text was published more than 100 years ago in 1905.The listener should be aware that the descriptions of the native peoples, their dress and home life reflected the perceptions and thinking of the early 20th century which some listeners may find offensive. [chương_files]
03/09/2024
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 – 09. September 1897
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the September Number. It includes the following articles: Modification of the Great Lakes by Earth Movement, by G. K. Gilbert The Toronto Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science The Great Unmapped Areas of the Earth’s Surface Awaiting the Explorer and Geographer, by J. Scott Keltie The Compass in Modern Navigation, by G. W. Littlehales [chương_files]
03/09/2024
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 – 05. May 1897
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the May Number. It includes the following articles: A Winter Voyage Through The Straights Of Magellan, by the late Admiral R. W. Meade, U.S.N. Admiral R. W. Meade, U.S.N., by John Hyde Costa Rica, by Señor Ricardo Villafranca Applied Physiography In South Carolina, by L. C. Glenn Sheik Said, by Ernest De Sasseville Geographic Literature, Serials and Miscellanea [chương_files]
03/09/2024
Desirable Alien at Home in Germany
A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox Ford (here using the surname Hueffer). – Summary by barbara2 [chương_files]
03/09/2024
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 – 07-08. July-August 1897
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the July-August Number. It includes the following articles: The Venezuelan Boundary Commission and its Work, by Marcus Baker Mineral Production in the United States, by John Hyde The Forests and Deserts of Arizona, by Bernard E. Fernow Mount St. Helens, by Lieut. Charles P. Elliott Geographic Literature [chương_files]
03/09/2024
Ins and Outs of Paris or Paris by Day and Night
Paris has been often described, by travelers, by artists, by savants, by friends and by enemies, yet it was after reading most of the works descriptive of Paris that I felt how much there was still to be written, if not about Paris, at least about the Parisians. (excerpt from the book) [chương_files]