American Notes by Rudyard Kipling. Written by the first ever British Nobel prize recipient for literature, Indian born Kipling details his travels to San Francisco in the lat 19th Century.
An Inland Voyage is regarded as the fist piece of outdoor literature. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, it is his travel account from a canoeing trip along the River Oise through France and Belgium with his friend Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson.
Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw, set in Roman times, about a slave who gets saved from torture by a lion. Shaw writes the play using slapstick humour, verbal wit and physical humour in outlining his themes.
Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of milliary songs and poems that relieve the experiences of soldiers sent to defend the British Empire.