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THE WORLD'S
GREATEST
BOOKS

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 BoswellFrontispiece
Baker, SirSamuelPage
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]