‘In the South Seas’ is an account of a journey undertaken by Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny in June 1888. The book, describes their experiences in the...

A brief, witty fun parlor book with stories of old manor houses, theatres, Norman castles, clubs, theatres and cinemas that are known as centres of paranormal, poltergeist, and...

Preface“The olden days of travelling, now to return no more, in which distance could not be vanquished without toil”—those are the days mourned by Ruskin, who...

England has been built up upon the framework of her rivers, and, in that pattern, the principal line has been the line of the Thames. Partly because it was the main highway of...

France is a land of many treasures. Human, senic, historic and cultural. Although justly famed for it's wine, gastronomy, and fashions, France's greatest treasures are it's...

Welcome to Barcelona, Gaudi's city, and much more.The capital of Catalunha's region (Spain) is a city where you feel good, safe and with a lot to see. It's inevitable...

"The old pacific capital" (1882) is an account of a journey undertaken by Robert Louis Stevenson in Monterey, Mexico, in 1880. The work is written in the form of essay...

Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious...

A trailblazer among American women at the turn of the century, Edith Wharton set out in the newly invented "motor-car" to explore the cities and countryside of France....

THE author of a little book published in 1818, called A Journey to London, which is nearly all "London" with very little "journey," remarks that "it is as...