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Books in the Geography genre:

Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Round the Globe (1840)

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Shortly after qualifying as a physician, the author signed on to a three year's voyage on a whaler header for the South Sea fishery. This two-volume work is considered one of the most accurate descriptions of industry. There are extensive description... View More

Author(s): Frederick Debell Bennett
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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American Notes for General Circulation (1842)

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A travelogue based on the author’s trip to America and Canada between January and June of 1842. Read online at archive.org: Volume 1 and Volume 2.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): None

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Pictures from Italy (1846)

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An account of Dickens’ travels in 1844. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Samuel Palmer

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The Innocents Abroad or The New Pilgrims’ Progress (1869)

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Originally written as letters to American newspapers, this travelogue includes a large dollop of satire on the Americans abroad and the Europeans who engaged to fleece them. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at Archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Anonymous

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The Harz Mountains: A Tour in the Toy Country (1873)

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A travel book of adventures in the North German highlands.

Author(s): Henry Blackburn
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Mrs. Mundi at Home: The Terrestrial Ball, R.S.V.P. (1875)

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A series of allegorical engravings of the planets and nations of the earth.

Author(s): Walter Crane
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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An Inland Voyage (1878)

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Robert Louis Stevenson and his friend Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson embark on a trip through Belgium and France by canoe which is chronicled in this book. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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North Italian Folk: Sketches of Town and Country Life (1878)

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A travel book of Italy. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mrs. Comyns Carr
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879)

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The account of a twelve days’ hiking expedition in the south of France. Read for free online at HathiTrust. Or at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s): Walter Crane

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Breton Folk: An Artistic Tour in Brittany (1880)

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A travel book of northern France. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Henry Blackburn
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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A Tramp Abroad (1880)

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The story of a walking tour of Germany and Italy, enlivened and augmented by numerous digressions and discursions. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Walter Francis Brown
Benjamin Henry Day
W. W. Denslow
True W. Williams
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Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine (1881)

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A description of conditions in the English cotton mill towns during the Civil War in America when no cotton reached them because of the Northern blockade. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Edwin Waugh
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Lancashire Sketches (1881)

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A collection of essays about the author’s native shire. This is the volume from the collected works.

Author(s): Edwin Waugh
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Tufts of Heather Volume 1 (1881)

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A collection of essays, chiefly about the author’s native Lancashire. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Edwin Waugh
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott
Et al

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Tufts of Heather Volume 2 (1881)

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A collection of essays, chiefly about the author’s native Lancashire. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Edwin Waugh
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott
George Sheffield

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Irish Sketches and Miscellany (1882)

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Travel sketches from Ireland.

Author(s): Edwin Waugh
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Rambles in the Lake Country and Other Travel Sketches (1882)

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Essays and travel sketches of the English Lake Country. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Edwin Waugh
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott
Et al

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Tufts of Heather Volume 2 (1882)

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A collection of essays, chiefly about the author’s native Lancashire. A new edition, this includes a different image on the title page.

Author(s): Edwin Waugh
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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The Chimney Corner (1883)

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Over forty Lancashire tales, largely in dialect.

Author(s): Edwin Waugh
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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Life on the Mississippi (1883)

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The author reminisces about his years as a Mississippi River pilot before the Civil War, then brings things up-to-date on a trip down river in the 1880’s. The first part was originally published as Old Times on the Mississippi in 1876. Read onl... View More

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): John Harley
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