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Travel and Exploration Genre
Books in the Travel and Exploration genre:
The Wreck of the Wild Wave (1942)
Author(s):
Edith Thacher Hurd
Illustrator(s):
Frederick T. Chapman
Over the Hills and Far Away (1947)
A history of vacations and vacationing.
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
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Of Courage Undaunted (1951)
The story of the exploration of the West by the Corps of Discovery.
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)
Tales, true, legendary and fairy about the Moorish palace in Granada.
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)
Essays and cartoons about the author’s adventures abroad.
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)
The story of transportation from the raft to the jet liner.
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)
A look at rockets, how they work and what they can do.
Author(s):
Rose Wyler
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
George Solonewitsch
Reindeer Trail (1959)
The story of how Laplanders brought their herds of tame reindeer to succor the natives of Alaska.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Where the Lion Trod (1960)
An account of the legacy of the British Raj in India, not long after independence.
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)
The people of Europe were eager to buy spices from the island nations of the far east.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Unforgettable Journeys (1965)
A selection of stories and true accounts of travels.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
John Verney