Tarry at Home texts online

Many of the wonderful travel books for children in the Pollard Collection, housed at Trinity College Dublin, are also available to read through various free online sources. Here are a few of the ones I’ve consulted recently:

Scenes in Asia for Little Tarry at Home Travellers

by the Rev Isaac Taylor, 3rd edition, 1822 here

The Ship:

a description of different kinds of vessels, the origin of ship building,

a brief sketch of naval affairs, with the distinctive flags of different nations,

by the Rev Isaac Taylor here

Tales of the North American Indians and Adventures of the Early American Settlers by Barbara Hawes, 1844 edition here

Thiodolf the Icelander  by Baron La Motte-Fouque, 1862? (translated from German) here

Three Months Under the Snow: The journal of a young inhabitant of the Jura by JJ Porchat. translated from French, 1855 here

Three Vassar Girls in Italy

 by Lizzie W. Champney. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1886 here

A Tour to Great St Bernard’s and round Mont Blanc, by William Rose, London 1827 here

The Traveller, or An Entertaining Journey Round the Habitable Globe

here

Travels in Africa by Mungo Park here

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