Victorian Books of Exploration and Travel in Asia and Africa

This CD brings together 127 rare and fascinating works dealing with the Arab world, Asia, and Africa, as witnessed by Victorian-age Europeans. It also contains the full text of the 16 volumes of Richard Burton's monumental translation of The Arabian Nights, with all his candid, racy footnotes, with their wealth of anthropological and cultural information.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

Complete Table of contents:

Anonymous

• Far Off or Asia and Australia Described, 1852
• Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816
• Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier by "Maori", 1878

Roy Chapman Andrews

• Camps and Trails in China

Richard Burton

• Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights, complete) (Burton = translator)
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7
• Volume 8
• Volume 9
• Volume 10
• Supplement Volume1
• Supplement Volume 2
• Supplement Volume 3
• Supplement Volume 4
• Supplement Volume 5
• Supplement Volume 6
• First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar
• The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, translated by Richard Burton
• without accents
• with accents
• The Land of Midian
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Masters of the English Novel: a Study of Principles and Personalities
• Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage of Al-Madinah and Meccah
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright
• To the Gold Coast for Gold
• Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance

Samuel White Baker

• The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile And Explorations of the Nile Sources
• Cyprus as I Saw It in 1879
• Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon
• In the Heart of Africa
• Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs
• The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon

K.M. Barrow

• Three Years in Tristan da Cunha

Henry Blanc

• Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia
• Ma Captivite en Abyssinie sous l'Empereur Theodoros

Horatio Bridge

• Journal of an African Cruiser (edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne)

John Buffa

• Travels through the Empire of Morocco, 1810

Alexander Bulatovich translated by Richard Seltzer

• Translator's Introduction to Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes
• From Entotto to the River Baro
• With the Armies of Menelik II

John Lewis Burckhardt

• Travels in Arabia
• Travels in Syria and the Holy Land

Captain Cook

• Captain Cook's Journal: First Voyages Round the World 1768-71
• The Life of Captain James Cook by ARthur Kitson, 1907
• Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook by A. Kippis

Charles Darwin

• Voyage of the Beagle

Harry de Windt

• A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan

Archibald Forbes

• The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80

Sir John Franklin

• The Journey to the Polar Sea by Sir John Franklin

General Sir Thomas Edward Gordon

• Persia Revisited, 1895

Richard Hakluyt (from the time of Elizabeth I)

• The Discovery of Muscovy
• Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Disoveries of the English Nation
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7
• Volume 8
• Volume 9
• Volume 11
• Volume 12
• Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
• Voyager's Tales

James Holman

• Volyage Round the World, volume 1, 1834

J.D. Hooker

• Himalayan Journals

Charles Hose and William McDougall

• Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Charles Hose and William McDougall

Albert Ernest Jenks

• The Bontoc Igorot [in the Philippines] by Albert Ernest Jenks

Samuel Johnson

• A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo, translated by Samuel Johnson
• Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Robert Kerr

• A General History and Collection of Voyages
• Volume 6
• Volume 7
• Volume 8
• Volume 9
• Volume 10
• Volume 14
• Volume 18

Mary Kingsley

• Travels in West Africa

Richard and John Lander

• Travels of Richard and John Lander into the Interior of Africa by Robert Hinch

Edward Landor

• The Bushman

A. Henry Savage-Landor

• Corea or Cho-sen

Anna Harriette Leonowens

• The English Governess at the Siamese Court

David Livingstone

• How I Found Livingstone by Henry Stanley
• Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
• The Personal Life of David Livingstone by W. Gordon Blaikie
• A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries and the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864

Carl Lumholtz

• Through Central Borneo

John MacGillivray

• Narrative of the Voyage of the HMS Rattlesnake 1846-1850
• volume 1
• volume 2

Fernand Neuray

• Quinze Jours en Egypte, 1908

Mungo Park

• Life and Travels of Mungo Park
• Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa 1805
• Travels in the Interior of Africa
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Sir W.E. Parry

• Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, volume 1, 1844

John Coleridge Patteson

• The Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte Yonge

John Payne

• The Book of 1000 Nights and One Night, translated by John Payne
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4

Ida Pfeiffer

• A Woman's Journey Round the World, 1850

James Richardson

• Travels in Morocco
• volume 1
• volume 2

Theo. Rodenbough

• Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Disppute

Captain R.F. Scott

• Scott's Last Expedition, volume 1 of 2, 1913

Mary Slessor

• Mary Slessor of Calabar, Pioneer Missionary by W.P. Livingstone

John Hanning Speke

• The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
• What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

Bayard Taylor

• The Lands of the Saracen, 1863

H. Wilfrid Walker

• Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines

Alfred Wallace

• The Malay Archipelago
• Volume 1
• Volume 2

Cornelis DeWitt Willcox

• The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon

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