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Journeys Worth Knowing

The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

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2,983 travel & exploration

The land of gold; reality versus fiction

Hinton Rowan Helper · novel

The story in one page

The Land of Little Rain

A resident of the California desert charts a landscape where the land, not the law, sets the human limit.

Mary Austin · ideas

The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1

Richard Francis Sir Burton · travel

The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2

Richard Francis Sir Burton · travel

The land of the Bey

T. Wemyss Reid · travel

The Land of the Black Mountain: The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro

Reginald Wyon · travel

The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia

W. Somerset Maugham · travel

The Land of the Kangaroo

Thomas Wallace Knox · novel

The Land of the Long Night

Paul B. Du Chaillu · travel

The Land of Thor

J. Ross Browne · travel

The Land of Tomorrow

William B. Stephenson · travel

The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions In West Cornwall, Illustrated

W. H. Hudson · travel

The lands of silence

Clements R. Sir Markham · travel

The Lands of the Saracen

Bayard Taylor · travel

The Lands of the Tamed Turk; or, the Balkan States of to-day

Blair Jaekel · travel

The Last Days of Pekin

Pierre Loti · travel

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

David Livingstone · biography

The Last Secrets: The Final Mysteries of Exploration

John Buchan · travel

The last travels of Ida Pfeiffer: inclusive of a visit to Madagascar, with a biographical memoir of the author

Ida Pfeiffer · biography

The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam'

Annie Brassey · travel

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices

Charles Dickens · novel

The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland

Norah · travel

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · biography

The letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858

Richard Ford · travel

The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African Traveller

Francis Bond Sir Head · biography

The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2

Maria Edgeworth · novel

The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 2 (of 2)

Isabel Lady Burton · biography

The Life of Sir Richard Burton

Thomas Wright · biography

The Life of the Moselle

Octavius Rooke · travel

The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor

Russell H. Conwell · biography

The Lightning Conductor: The Strange Adventures of a Motor-Car

C. N. Williamson · novel

The Little Tea Book

Arthur Gray · poetry

The Little Washingtons' Travels

Lillian Elizabeth Roy · novel

The lives of celebrated travellers, Vol. 1. (of 3)

James Augustus St. John · biography

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John · biography

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3 (of 3)

James Augustus St. John · biography

The Log of a Sea-Waif: Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life

Frank Thomas Bullen · biography

The Log of the Empire State

Geneve L. A. Shaffer · travel

The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson

Ida Lee · travel

The Long Labrador Trail

Dillon Wallace · travel

Ahmad Muhammad Hasanayn · travel

The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia

Jan Gordon · travel

The Lure of Old London

Sophie Cole · travel

The Lure of the Camera

Charles S. Olcott · travel

The Lure of the Labrador Wild

Dillon Wallace · travel

The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea

Robert Wood Williamson · travel

The Magic of Spain

Aubrey F. G. Bell · travel

The Maine Woods

Henry David Thoreau · travel