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Travel and Exploration Genre
Books in the Travel and Exploration genre:
The Picture Book of Travel (1928)
The story of how we get from here to there.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Courageous Companions (1929)
The story of an English lad who sails with Magellan around the world.
Author(s):
Charles Finger
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Deep Water Days (1929)
A collection of sea stories with illustrations by different artists.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
N. C. Wyeth
Et al
A Shopping Guide to Paris (1929)
Definitely a pre-crash book for the wealthy American abroad.
Author(s):
Louise Bonney
Thérèse Bonney
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Vienna that’s not in the Baedeker (1929)
A guidebook to Vienna.
Author(s):
Ludwig Hirschfeld
Thomas Watson MacCallum
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Adalbert Sipos
The Voyage of the Annie Marble (1929)
The author takes a small motor boat on the rivers of the France.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Annie Marble in Germany (1930)
The author of the Hornblower saga takes a motor boat on the German inland waterways.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Oregon Trail (1931)
Francis Parkman took a tour of the West before settling down to write his histories. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Oxted and Limpsfield (1932)
A travel book.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Arthur Rackham
R. H. Yates
Et al
Raggle-Taggle (1933)
Adventures with a fiddle in Hungary and Romania.
Author(s):
Walter Starkie
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
The Story Book of Transportation (1933)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Miki and Mary: Their Search for Treasures (1934)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Spanish Raggle-Taggle (1934)
Adventures with a fiddle in Norther Spain.
Author(s):
Walter Starkie
Illustrator(s):
Arthur Rackham
Pee-Gloo, A Little Penguin from the South Pole (1935)
The story of a little penguin.
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Georges Duplaix
Don Gypsy (1936)
The travels and adventures of a folk singer in Spain and the adjacent Barbary states. Frontis and title page by Rackham.
Author(s):
Walter Starkie
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Arthur Rackham
Over the Blue Wall (1937)
A history of the lands west of the Appalachians to the Mississippi, from Ponce de Leon to Jefferson.
Author(s):
Etta Lane Matthews
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
S.O.S. Geneva (1939)
Three young children whose homes have been destroyed when the Danube River floods, make their way to Geneva to get help from the United Nations.
Author(s):
Richard Plant
Oskar Seidlin
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
Anthology of Children’s Literature (1940)
An immense anthology with everything from Mother Goose to Eve Curie.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Edna Johnson
Carrie E. Scott
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Four Years in Paradise (1941)
The story of Johnson's protracted stay at Lake Paradise in Kenya.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Osa Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
How Do You Get There? (1941)
Each picture ask the question - how do you get from here to there? Lift the flap to find out if you were right.