The Greatest Travel Books

Roughing It The Journals of Lewis and Clark 1804-1806 The Voyage of the Beagle. Captain Cooks Journal During His First Voyage Round the World and The Cruise of the Land-Yacht Wanderer; or Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan are among the Greatest Travel Books included in this set. Roughing It is a work of travel writing by Mark Twain that is loosely autobiographical. In order to serve as a precursor to his first travel book The Innocents Abroad it was written in 1870–1871 and published in 1872. (1869). The story covers young Mark Twains journeys through the Wild West from 1861 through 1867. He embarked on a stagecoach trip to the west with his brother Orion Clemens who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory following a brief term as a Confederate cavalry militiaman (not detailed in the tale). Twain relied largely on his active imagination for many of the anecdotes in the book and reviewed his brothers diaries to refresh his recollection. The Journals of Lewis and Clark1804-1806 -These journals cover the period from May 14 1804 when the expedition departed for its journey up the Mississippi River until September 26 1806 when they returned to St. Louis. The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin was twenty-two years old and embarking on the journey of a lifetime when HMS Beagle left Devonport on December 27 1831.This book is a condensed version of his notebook and depicts a patient naturalist making observations about geology natural history people places and events. Captain Cooks Journal During His First Voyage Round the World - The journal kept by Captain Cook on his first voyage around the globe was published in 1768–1771 on the H M Bark Endeavour. Unique images are included in this literal transcription of the original MSSThe Cruise of the Land-Yacht Wanderer; or Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan - This literary anthology makes an effort to gather many of the timeless classics.