Free Public Domain PDF e-books about adventurers, explorers, sailors and mountaineers from all over the world – and exciting novels of adventure. Be inspired and learn how the world was discovered.
The Gift – Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies is the anthropological classic on economy, society and sociology by the french sociologist Marcel Mauss. The book investigates the gift as predecessor for modern societies economies by comparing habits … Read more and download PDF
THE VOYAGES OF THE NORSEMEN TO AMERICA is an impressive historical presentation of the travels by the Vikings to America. The book was written by the dane William Hovgaard and published in English in 1914. His aim was to collect … Read more and download PDF
The North West Passage by Roald Amundsen is the well written and sometimes dramatic story about the “Gjöa Expedition”, led by Amundsen himself during the years 1903-1907. This fine work was published after his successful return and it is richly illustrated with … Read more and download PDF
Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska by Frederick Whymper is the accounts of travels to the Arctic America, at that time known as Russian America, in the middle of the 1800′. The book was published in 1868 and … Read more and download PDF