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JOINT EDITORS
ARTHUR MEE
Editor and Founder of the Book of Knowledge
J. A. HAMMERTON
Editor of Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopaedia
VOL. XIX
TRAVEL AND
ADVENTURE
Wm. H. Wise & Co.
| Copyright, MCMX | McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie |
Table of Contents
| Portrait ofJames Boswell | Frontispiece | |
| Baker, SirSamuel | Page | |
| Albert N'yanza | [1] | |
| Borrow,George | ||
| Wild Wales | [13] | |
| Bible in Spain | [22] | |
| Boswell,James | ||
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | [37] | |
| Bruce,James | ||
Travels to Discover the Source of theNile | [47] | |
| Burckhardt,John Lewis | ||
Travels in Nubia | [57] | |
| Burton, SirRichard | ||
Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah | [67] | |
| Butler, SirWilliam | ||
Great Lone Land | [79] | |
| Wild North Land | [89] | |
| Cook,James | ||
Voyages Round the World | [100] | |
| Dampier,William | ||
New Voyage Round the World | [112] | |
| Darwin,Charles | ||
Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle | [124] | |
| Dubois,Felix | ||
Timbuctoo the Mysterious | [136] | |
| Hakluyt,Richard | ||
Principal Navigations | [148] | |
| Kinglake, A.W. | ||
| Eothen | [159] | |
| Layard,Austen Henry | ||
Nineveh and Its Remains | [171] | |
| Linnæus, Carolus | ||
Tour in Lapland | [181] | |
| Livingstone,David | ||
Missionary Travels and Researches | [191] | |
| Loti,Pierre | ||
| Desert | [201] | |
| Mandeville,Sir John | ||
Voyage and Travel | [210] | |
| Park,Mungo | ||
Travels in the Interior of Africa | [219] | |
| Polo,Marco | ||
| Travels | [229] | |
| Saint Pierre,Bernadin de | ||
Voyage to the Isle of France | [241] | |
| Speke, JohnHanning | ||
Discovery of the Source of the Nile | [251] | |
| Sterne,Laurence | ||
Sentimental Journey through France andItaly | [263] | |
| Voltaire | ||
Letters on the English | [275] | |
| Wallace,Alfred Russel | ||
Travels on the Amazon | [285] | |
| Warburton,Eliot | ||
Crescent and the Cross | [299] | |
| Waterton,Charles | ||
Wanderings in South America | [313] | |
| Young,Arthur | ||
Travels in France | [327] | |