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Journeys That Changed the World
- From Marco Polo to Charles Darwin
- Narrated by: Marc LeVasseur
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary
This remarkable book, originally published in the 19th century, contains extended selections from the original writings and journals of those remarkable men who traveled across the globe and forever changed our understanding of the world.
Included in this volume are the following journeys:
Baker, Sir Samuel - "Albert N'yanza"
Borrow, George - "Wild Wales Bible In Spain"
Boswell, James - "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides"
Bruce, James - "Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile"
Burckhardt, John Lewis - "Travels in Nubia"
Burton, Sir Richard - "Pilgrimage to El Medinah And Meccah"
Butler, Sir William - "Great Lone Land Wild North Land"
Cook, James - "Voyages Round the World"
Dampier, William - "New Voyage Round the World"
Darwin, Charles - "Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle"
Dubois, Felix - "Timbuctoo the Mysterious"
Hakluyt, Richard - "Principal Navigations"
Kinglake, A. W. - "Eothen"
Layard, Austen Henry - "Nineveh and Its Remains"
Linnæus, Carolus - "Tour in Lapland"
Livingstone, David - "Missionary Travels and Researches"
Loti, Pierre - "Desert"
Mandeville, Sir John - "Voyage and Travel"
Park, Mungo - "Travels in the Interior of Africa"
Polo, Marco - "Travels"
Saint Pierre, Bernadin De - "Voyage to the Isle of France"
Speke, John Hanning - "Discovery of the Source of the Nile"
Sterne, Laurence - "Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy"
Voltaire - "Letters on the English"
Wallace, Alfred Russel - "Travels on the Amazon"
Warburton, Eliot - "Crescent and the Cross"
Waterton, Charles - "Wanderings in South America"
Young, Arthur - "Travels in France"