Classic Exploration & Lost Worlds
Professor Challenger's plateau still crawling with dinosaurs, Allan Quatermain deep in Kukuanaland, Axel descending through Snæfellsjökull, Marlow up the Congo. Lost-world adventures from the age of the imperial map — click-to-explain for the outdated geography, the period's racial assumptions, and the lost technical vocabulary, so you read the story and the era around it at the same time.
32 books
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Travel Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
The Maracot Deep by Arthur Conan Doyle
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860–69 by Edward Whymper
The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Allan Quatermain Stories by H. Rider Haggard
South! by Ernest Shackleton
Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt
She by H. Rider Haggard
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne
At the Earth’s Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne
Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne
The Fur Country by Jules Verne
The Lost Continent by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
The Cruise of the Alerte by E. F. Knight
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson
Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs
After London by Richard Jefferies
When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard
To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
Journals by Alexander Mackenzie
