Travel and Exploration Genre
Books in the Travel and Exploration genre:
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
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.
The Wreck of the Wild Wave (1942)
Author(s):
Edith Thacher Hurd
Illustrator(s):
Frederick T. Chapman
Over the Hills and Far Away (1947)
Author(s):
Hartley Kemball Cook
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Doctor Dolittle and the Secret Lake (1948)
Author(s):
Hugh Lofting
Illustrator(s):
Hugh Lofting
The Good Time Guide to London (1951)
Eight drawings by Ardizzone.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Et al
Of Courage Undaunted (1951)
Author(s):
James Daugherty
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Betsy and the Great World (1952)
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
The Conquest of the North and South Poles (1952)
This short book includes American exploration at the poles by Peary and Byrd.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Russell Owen
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Alhambra: Palace of Mystery and Splendor (1953)
Author(s):
Washington Irving
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia (1954)
On a lavender blue day Anna Lavinia learns she is to visit her Aunt Sophia Maria, so she sets off next day with an umbrella, a gardenia bush, a carpetbag full of pawpaw jelly and her cat Strawberry.
Author(s):
Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Brown
Verney Abroad (1954)
Author(s):
John Verney
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955)
Huck is running away from his drunken father, Jim from an abusive master so they head down the Mississippi on a raft. The Great American Novel.
Author(s):
Mark Twain
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
In France (1956)
Author(s):
Marguerite Clément
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
My Little Golden Book about Travel (1956)
Author(s):
Kathleen N. Daly
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
All About the Great Rivers of the World (1957)
Author(s):
Anne Terry White
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Exploring Space (1958)
Author(s):
Rose Wyler
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
George Solonewitsch
Reindeer Trail (1959)
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Where the Lion Trod (1960)
Author(s):
Gordon Shepherd
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
Gulliver’s Travels (1964)
Captain Lemuel Gulliver travels to various strange lands from the Lilliputian to the Brobdingnagnian.
Author(s):
Jonathan Swift
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Cities of Gold and Isles of Spice (1965)
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Unforgettable Journeys (1965)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
John Verney
Captain Horatio Hornblower: a condensation of Beat to Quarters (1966)
Author(s):
Charlotte Brontë
Richard Evelyn Byrd
C. S. Forester
Mary O’Hara
Illustrator(s):
James E. Bama
Emily’s Voyage (1966)
Author(s):
Emma Smith
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1967)
The story of a twelve days’ hiking and expedition in the south of France.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Adventures of Captain William Walrus (1972)
Author(s):
Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s):
Enzo Giannini
Yagua Days (1975)
Author(s):
Cruz Martel
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Demetrius and the Golden Goblet (1980)
The King asks Demetrius, a sponge diver, to tell him what he finds on the bottom of the sea. Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Eve Bunting
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Visiting Dieppe (1981)
This magazine piece was originally published in Signature, New Series 14 in 1951 and chronicles a holiday excursion to Normandy.
Author(s):
Lynton Lamb
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Picturesque Netherlands (1988)
Another of Anno’s country books, this time about the Netherlands. The text is in English and Dutch.
Author(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
Illustrator(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
Lebek (1991)
Detailed illustrations of the growth of a Northern European settlement to a modern city.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jordi Ballonga
Xavier Hernández
Illustrator(s):
Francesco Corni
Around the World in Eighty Days (1995)
A new English translation illustrated by Alphonse de Neuville and Leon Benett of Jules Verne’s most popular adventure. Phineas Fogg sets out with his valet Passepartout to circle the globe in eighty days. What about that date line?
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
None
Anno’s Spain (2004)
Journey through the enchanting cities and eras of Spain. Wander through the historic moments and find the hidden literary and artistic details of this intriguing country.
Author(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
Illustrator(s):
Mitsumasa Anno
Around the World in Eighty Days (2004)
Phineas Fogg wagers he can travel around the world in just eighty days. The year is 1872 as he sets out on the adventure with his valet Passepartout.
Author(s):
Jules Verne
Illustrator(s):
None
Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude (2004)
Author(s):
Louise Borden
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
If You Decide to go to the Moon (2005)
What would it be like to go to the moon?
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Faith McNulty
Illustrator(s):
Steven Kellogg
A Little House Traveler Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Journeys Across America (2006)
This is an anthology containing On the Way Home, West from Home and The Road Back Home, the story of Laura and Manly’s return to South Dakota in 1931.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia (2011)
On a lavender blue day Anna Lavinia learns she is to visit her Aunt Sophia Maria, so she sets off next day with an umbrella, a gardenia bush, a carpetbag full of pawpaw jelly and her cat Strawberry.
Author(s):
Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s):
Palmer Brown
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