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  • A Voyage Round the World, Volume I

    by James Holman ...
    "A Voyage Round the World, Volume I" by James Holman is an adventurous narrative that chronicles the author's extensive travels across various continents and oceans. Holman, who was a blind traveler, offers a unique perspective on the places he visited, blending vivid descriptions with insightful reflections on the cultures and peoples he encountered. His journey takes readers through exotic ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Voyage Round the World

    Volume I, Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832

    by James Holman ...
    The Blind Traveler, James Holman, was a British adventurer who undertook a number of lone journeys unprecedented through history in their distance and methodology. Not only was Holman rendered totally blind from the age of 25, he also suffered from severe pain and restricted mobility. He was a pioneer of "human echolocation", using the sound of a tapping cane to negotiate his way across the planet ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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    A Voyage Round the World, Vol. I (Unabridged)

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    by James Holman ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Loiacono, William Smith, Josephine Reynolds, Bruce Tennant ...

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    13 hours 56 min

    This is Volume 1 of 4 volumes. Some territories explored are Sierra Leone, Fernando Po, Calabar, and Prince Edward's Island. Standard clash of races and cultures is ever-present, but also always a disdainful attitude toward the workings of the British and European slave trade. It is a document to inform the English sovereign of the nature of its colonization in Africa. ... Read more

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  • The Voyages of Captain Cook

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  • The Mutiny on the Bounty

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    by Captain William Bligh, Sir John Farrow, Rosalind Amelia Young ...
    The Mutiny of the Bounty is one of the most famous stories in maritime history that has been told in countless books and motion pictures. It describes the arduous voyage of the H.M.S. Bounty, under the harsh rule of the strict Captain Bligh, and the eventual mutiny of much of the crew led by the Mutineer Fletcher Christian. Less well-known is the incredible survival story of how Captain Bligh and ... Read more

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  • The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty

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  • Travels in the Interior of Africa

    by Mungo Park, Bernard Waites, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    With an Introduction and Notes by Bernard Waites, The Open UniversityIn 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old Scottish surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. Travels in the interior districts of Africa… is his Journal of that extraordinary journey. He travelled on the sufferance of African rulers and soon came to ... Read more

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    by Kingston, W.H.G. ...
    This book is not a series of fictitious adventures of the great Captain Cook, the eighteenth century navigator and explorer, but a straightforward statement of his life and achievements. It is therefore more of a biography than an adventure book for boys. However, the man was so great that his biography can indeed be read as a well-written book of adventures. According to Wikipedia: "William Henry ... Read more

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  • A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries

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  • The English Colony in New South Wales (Vol. 1&2)

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    An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales is a two-volume history of the British settlement in Australia written by Colonel David Collins, administrator of Britain's first colonies in Australia. The work covers period from the first settlement in January 1788, to August 1801 with remarks on the dispositions, customs, and manners of the native inhabitants of Australia to which are added ... Read more

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