Travel Fiction Classics

Brought to you by Penguin. Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics...

Join Mr Phileas Fogg and his loyal servant Passepartout as they race across the globe to win a daring bet in just 80 days.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Tania Rodrigues, best known for [credits]. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Glencross. One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty...

"We are all travelers in the 'wilderness of the world' - travelers with a donkey." So Robert Louis Stevenson wrote to a friend on completing this enchanting account of a journey in rural France in 1878. Alone with his pack-donkey Modestine, and showing total disregard for discomfort, Stevenson relishes to the full his walking tour of the Cevennes.

Drift into H. G. Wells's 1895 masterpiece as never before. This cinematic, unabridged audio edition of The Time Machine transforms the foundational novel of science fiction into a fully immersive listening experience — original sounds, atmospheric ambience, and carefully designed sound effects...

Ostensibly written by an English knight, The Book of Marvels and Travels claim to recount his experiences in Egypt, the Levant, India, and China. It describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and further into Asia, and the many weird and wonderful peoples and practices of the East. The author claims to have traveled in land populated by Amazons, dog-headed people, cannibals, one-footed tribes, and Pygmies.

What starts with young Jim Hawkins meeting a beggar and ends in a climactic battle between him and one of the most infamous villains in literature — Long John Silver — has long been revered as the ultimate pirate adventure story. This non - dramatized classic will sweep you off to a world of sly and savvy seafarers as the young Hawkins navigates treachery, assassination and the ominous prophecy of the black spot in the greatest treasure hunt known to literature.

Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood was published in 1893. The novel recounts the adventures of the German boy Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, who goes by the name "Baron Trump", and his dog Bulger, as they discover fantastic underground civilizations, offend the natives, escape from their involvements, and repeat this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump.

Escrito no século XIX, em meio a ascensão de ideias liberais em Portugal, Viagens na Minha Terra narra o percurso do autor Almeida Garrett, que parte de Lisboa em direção a Santarém. Além de ser um romance histórico, a obra traça profundas críticas ao desenvolvimento urbano de Portugal e de seu progresso como nação ao longo dos anos. Entre paisagens naturais, o autor também conta a história do romance de Carlos e Joaninha e seu envolvimento com a Guerra Civil portuguesa.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, composer, essayist, and adventure writer. "The Silverado Squatters" is a travelogue of his honeymoon in the Napa Valley. "Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes" (1879), one of his earliest published works, is considered a milestone of outdoor literature. The short story "A Lodging for the Night" (1877) was Stevenson's first published fiction, at the age of 27, while Kidnapped (1886) is an historical novel set in 18th-century Scotland, about the Appin Murder.

What if the greatest scientific breakthroughs were not miracles… but curses? In this haunting 2-in-1 audiobook, two of H.G. Wells’ most visionary works unfold—stories that question not what science can do, but what it should never do. In "The Invisible Man", a gifted scientist discovers how to erase himself from sight. Invisible, untouchable, freed from consequence, he begins to shed more than his physical form. As isolation deepens, something colder emerges—a quiet unraveling of conscience.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A Victorian gentleman builds a machine of brass, ivory and quartz, sits in the saddle, and pushes the lever. The drawing room dissolves. Outside the window, day and night flicker past like the beating of a wing, and the house crumbles into a garden that...

An amazing sight met my eyes. All around me were dozens of human creatures a little less than six inches high, chattering together in high-pitched voices in a strange language. When Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean, it's the start of a series of adventures stranger than he could possibly have imagined. After the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput become suspicious of Gulliver, they plan to kill their huge visitor. What deadly scheme do they come up with?

Temi stood in stunned silence at the sight before her. She had finally come face to face with the man from her dreams. Having slipped through time as a child, she had seen this man on three occasions. Destiny now seemingly fulfilled, this man she recognized from her past travels through time was standing right in front of her, in a small general store, at the foot of the mountain that she called home. But Temi has a secret. She is inextricably linked to the spirit that resides in the heart of the mountain.

A fascinating collection of travellers' tales, featuring weird innkeepers, ghouls and ghosts, robbers and murderers, card sharpers and confidence tricksters, dead bodies in odd places....the very thing for anyone busy planning a vacation this year....

Las aventuras alrededor del mundo de un ingles. A Julio Verne le consideran como uno de los precursores de la novela de ficcion cientifica, por que escribio sobre temas como los viajes submarinos o la llegada a la luna, que en esos tiempos eran casi un imposible.

A terrifying leap into the fourth dimension... or an elaborate, impossible lie? With a blinding flash and a deafening report, quiet schoolmaster Gottfried Plattner is erased from existence. Nine days later, he violently materializes out of thin air - dishevelled, bloodied, and bearing a...