Dover books on travel, adventure

The memoirs of Emily Ruete who was born a princess in Zanzibar, raised in a harem, married to a German, and then became embroiled in a bitter struggle for political control over the island during the period of nineteenth-century European colonialism.

Chronicles the history of dirigible flight from its invention in 1865 to the end of the era, which came with the 1937 crash of the "Hindenburg.".

A travelogue written at the end of the nineteenth century by American author Mark Twain in which he describes his experiences sailing around the world via steamship on a lecture tour.