Travel Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return - Artemus WARD
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return - Artemus WARD
- Author: Artemus WARD
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Historical Fiction
Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a series of letters, essays, and...
The Gorilla Hunters - R. M. Ballantyne
The Gorilla Hunters - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Action & Adventure
Ralph Rover is happily at home from his adventure on The Coral Island and wondering if he should settle down when he receives a visit from an eccentric stranger that won't give his name. This visit starts him on a string of adventures that find him...
Penelope's English Experiences - Kate Douglas Wiggin
Penelope's English Experiences - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Travel Fiction / General Fiction
Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. Included are scenes in London and the village of Belvern, containing fanciful sketches of a West-end ball,...
The World's Desire - Andrew Lang
The World's Desire - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon's Mines the Allan Quatermain Series, and many more) and Andrew Lang (author of, among others, the rainbow coloured fairytale books) collaborate to lend their talent to one of the most fascinating and well...
Madame Chrysantheme - Pierre Loti
Madame Chrysantheme - Pierre Loti
- Author: Pierre Loti
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Romance
Pierre Loti (a nom de plume) was for many years an officer in the French Navy, giving him the opportunity to sample and analyze different national and cultural milieux, in which he deeply immersed himself. The present book, said to have formed the...
October Vagabonds - Richard le Gallienne
October Vagabonds - Richard le Gallienne
- Author: Richard le Gallienne
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Travel Fiction
Richard and his friend Colin must sadly return from their distant hermitage to New York City at summer's end. However, rather than take the train on the 430 mile trip to the city, the two decide to walk the route, for as Richard stated: "Don't you...
Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers - Isaac Taylor
Scenes in Europe, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers - Isaac Taylor
- Author: Isaac Taylor
- Genre: Travel Fiction
In this little volume, Isaac Taylor takes us on a tour of Europe, anno 1824. We travel once around the entire continent, starting in England, through Scandinavia, Russia, down to Turkey, over the Alps, France, Spain, and back to England. The tour is...
More Selected Classics of Washington Irving - Washington Irving
More Selected Classics of Washington Irving - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Travel Fiction
Washington Irving is, arguably, one of America's greatest writers. He spent many years in Europe and kept records of his observations, which formed the basis of such classics as "Old Christmas," "Bracebridge Hall" and "Tales of a Traveler." This...
Faery Lands of the South Seas - James Norman HALL
Faery Lands of the South Seas - James Norman HALL
- Author: James Norman HALL
- Genre: Travel Fiction
Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They later co authored “Mutiny on the Bounty”. This is a love story. A travelogue and an adventure rolled into one. This book just...
The Ghost Camp - Rolf BOLDREWOOD
The Ghost Camp - Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Author: Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Genre: Travel Fiction
Englishman Valentine Blount is traveling in Australia, looking for his fortune. He meets up with John Carter, a bushman known locally as Little River Jack, who acts as his guide. They come across an abandoned camp - what is the story behind it?...
The Europeans - Henry James
The Europeans - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Travel Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the 'new' world of New England. The...
The Emancipated - George Gissing
The Emancipated - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Romance
In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in the oppressive social order of the Victorian era. A group of British expatriats go to tour the country and do things they might live to either bless or regret. This book details their...
Dash for Khartoum - G. A. Henty
Dash for Khartoum - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Travel Fiction / Historical Fiction
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid returns, intent on using the boys to get money. When the boy she chooses first refuses to help and instead...
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars - Bampfylde Moore CAREW
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars - Bampfylde Moore CAREW
- Author: Bampfylde Moore CAREW
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Travel Fiction
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant who roams 18th-century England extracting charity from merchants, clergyman, and members of the landed gentry...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Version 3) - Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Version 3) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction
Originally published 1870, this recording is from the English translation by Frederick P. Walter, published 1991, containing the unabridged text from the original French and offered up into the public domain. It is considered to be the very first...
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. - Washington Irving
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Travel Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous - other tales include "Roscoe", "The Broken Heart", "The Art of Book-making", "A Royal Poet", "The Spectre Bridegroom",...
Travels in Lancashire - Undefined
Travels in Lancashire - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Poetry / Travel & Geography
A collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on travels in Lancashire, England, with occasional sorties into adjacent counties. - Summary by Phil Benson...
The Purple Land - William Henry HUDSON
The Purple Land - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title became: “The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adventures in The Banda Oriental, in...
The Voyage Out (Version 2) - Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out (Version 2) - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: Travel Fiction
Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The...
Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa - Jules Verne
Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Travel Fiction
Three Englishmen and Three Russians travel across the width of South Africa to measure a meridian. The outbreak of the Crimean War makes the Russians enemy agents in an English colony. Summary by Kim....
Three Men on the Bummel (Version 2) - Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men on the Bummel (Version 2) - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Our Friends from Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing of the Dog, are back. In this funny sequel to Three Men in a Boat J., George, and Harris are out of the boat and on the land riding their bikes. Their lives are too stressful and they need a break...
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand - Charlotte EVANS
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand - Charlotte EVANS
- Author: Charlotte EVANS
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
One of the very first New Zealand novels, Over the Hills and Far Away is a heavily romanticised tale of a woman's journey from England to Otago, New Zealand, and her subsequent experiences in the wild new colony. - Summary by Lewis Fletcher...
Diary of a Pilgrimage - Jerome K. Jerome
Diary of a Pilgrimage - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A possibly fictionalised account by the comic novelist Jerome K. Jerome of a trip to Germany that he undertook with a friend in order to see the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau. The journey takes in London, Dover, Ostend, Cologne, Munich,...
The Wheat Princess - Jean Webster
The Wheat Princess - Jean Webster
- Author: Jean Webster
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Family Life / Romance
Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period, she may want to attract an aristocrat. He brings the title, she brings the money to support it. Her adventures in Rome are different than she anticipated. Rich and poor...
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 6 - Famous Travels & Adventures - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 6 - Famous Travels & Adventures - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Travel Fiction
Historical vignettes of selected locations throughout the world and many of our early explorers as well. Fascinating travel adventures throughout Europe, Asia, America, etc. for young and old alike. Perfect for the armchair traveler who enjoys...
Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel - Various
Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Travel Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
This is the seventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only...
A Cathedral Courtship - Kate Douglas Wiggin
A Cathedral Courtship - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
An romantic comedy. A pretty young American girls tours English Cathedrals, with her very blue-blooded Aunt. Then boy meets girl. Boy chases girl. Boy loses girl. Boy finds girl. Finally, girl catches boy with the help of a mad bull. (Summary by Ric...
The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni VERGA
The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni VERGA
- Author: Giovanni VERGA
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Travel Fiction / Family Life
In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nuts. The cargo is lost at sea and a succession of misfortunes and tragedies assails the family. A masterpiece...
From Sunrise Land - Amy Wilson Carmichael
From Sunrise Land - Amy Wilson Carmichael
- Author: Amy Wilson Carmichael
- Genre: Travel Fiction
One of the most renowned of all Protestant Christian missionaries, Amy Carmichael is remembered most for the fifty-five years she spent doing evangelistic and philanthropic work in India. She began her missions career, however, with fifteen months...
The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Travel Fiction
Writer/entertainer Garrison Keillor (A Prairie Home Companion) on “The Innocents Abroad”: “…one of the best selling travel books of all time.” (The Writer’s Almanac, June 8, 2012) When you dive into Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens’) The Innocents...
Poison Island - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
Poison Island - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Author: Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Mysterious old Captain Coffin not only has a wild story about a Honduran island where treasure lies, he has a map. But they must be wary because it also holds “a poison that kills a man and keeps him fresh as paint”. Nothing can hold Harry back from...
Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Vol. 1 (version 2) - Dorothy Richardson
Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage Vol. 1 (version 2) - Dorothy Richardson
- Author: Dorothy Richardson
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Literary Fiction
"Pointed Roofs" is the first volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson considered to have pioneered the "stream of consciousness" technique of writing. In a review of Pointed Roofs (The Egoist April...
The City of the Sun - Tommaso Campanella
The City of the Sun - Tommaso Campanella
- Author: Tommaso Campanella
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
A dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese Sea-captain, about the latter's voyage to a utopian city. (Summary by Rapunzelina)...
Round the Moon (Version 2) - Jules Verne
Round the Moon (Version 2) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Science Fiction
Jules Verne’s sequel to his “From the Earth to the Moon” begins with a short chapter to catch you up, if you missed the first book. Then we join our three adventurers in their huge projectile as they gather themselves after the shock of being fired...
The Road To Mandalay - Bithia Mary Croker
The Road To Mandalay - Bithia Mary Croker
- Author: Bithia Mary Croker
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Travel Fiction / Romance
Sophy Leigh and Douglas Shafto come to Burma on the same ship in 1912. They come for different reasons. Through them, we learn about British India in the time between 1912 and 1914, just before WWI. Academics view Bithia Mary Croker as one of the...
The Wonderful Year - William John Locke
The Wonderful Year - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Martin Overshaw and Corinna Hastings are leading dull and unproductive lives in Paris, having fled humdrum England. They fall in with Fortinbras, who calls himself a Marchand de Bonheur. He predicts a bright future for them and suggests they set out...
The Secret City - Hugh Walpole
The Secret City - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Written in the first person, The Secret City is a novel in three parts of a journey through post World War I Russia and the Revolution, during a period of Civil War and economic collapse. Our hero sets sail in 1916 and is swept up into the...
Murray's Adirondack Tales - William Henry Harrison MURRAY
Murray's Adirondack Tales - William Henry Harrison MURRAY
- Author: William Henry Harrison MURRAY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction
Two delightful tales surrounding the adventures of John Norton, the Trapper. He gives us a good glimpse into life in the deep woods, and how he deals with those who would disturb him or others with their, "diviltry." John Norton gives us all a great...
From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2 - Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2 - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Science Fiction
Jules Verne takes aim at some amusing stereotypes of Americans in this story of a pre-rocketry attempt to shoot a cannonball to the Moon. Those Yankees don’t do anything by halves! His means is a Columbiad cannon so enormous that it must be bored...
