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• America -- Discovery and exploration -- Pre-Columbian
• America -- Discovery and exploration -- Religious aspects
• America -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources
• America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish
• America -- Discovery and exploration -- Welsh

• As Duas Americas (second edition, in Portuguese; Lisbon: J. Bastos, 1900), by Candido Costa, illust. by António Ramalho
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History: 1300-1600, by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
• The Men Who Found America, by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson, illust. by E. Roscoe Shrader and Herbert Moore (illustrated HTML at Baldwin Project)
• The Story of Old Europe and Young America (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, c1922), by William H. Mace and Edwin P. Tanner, illust. by Homer Wayland Colby, B. F. Williamson, and Frank T. Merrill (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
• Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery, by Filson Young (Gutenberg text)
• Los Caballeros del Dorado (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. Clasical Espanola, 1915), by Ciro Bayo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Discovery of America By Christopher Columbus, and the Origin of the North American Indians (1836), by John McIntosh (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (12 volumes; London: Printed for Cadell and Davies et al., 1817), by William Robertson, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (multiple formats at Google)
• The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (8 volumes; Oxford: Printed for W. Pickering, and Talboys and Wheeler, 1825), by William Robertson
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at Internet Archive
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Internet Archive
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at Internet Archive
  • Volume 4: multiple formats at Internet Archive
  • Volume 5: multiple formats at Internet Archive
  • Volume 6: multiple formats at Internet Archive
  • Volume 7: multiple formats at Internet Archive
  • Volume 8: multiple formats at Internet Archive

• Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier, Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Bucaniers (New-York: Harper and Bros., 1864), by C. I. Johnstone (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• A Discourse Concerning Western Planting: Written in the Year 1584 by Richard Hakluyt, Now First Printed from a Contemporary Manuscript (Cambridge, MA: J. Wilson and Son, 1877), by Richard Hakluyt, ed. by Charles Deane, contrib. by Leonard Woods
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)
• John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America and Sebastian, His Son: A Chapter of the Maritime History of England Under the Tudors, 1496-1557 (London: Stevens, 1896), by Henry Harrisse (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pale Ink: Two Ancient Records of Chinese Exploration in America (Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1953), by Henriette Mertz (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Fusang: or, The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century (New York: J. W. Bouton, 1875), by Charles Godfrey Leland (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Notices of Fu-Sang, and Other Countries Lying East of China, in the Pacific Ocean (1881), by S. Wells Williams, contrib. by Ma Duanlin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hakluytus Posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes (4 volumes; London: Imprinted for H. Fetherston, 1625), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Purchas His Pilgrimage (London: Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone, 1626), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent (1850 edition), by Richard Hakluyt and John Winter Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Journal of Christopher Columbus (During His First Voyage, 1492-93), and Documents Relating the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1893), by Christopher Columbus, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 1492, by Mary Johnston
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Mercedes of Castile (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867), by James Fenimore Cooper (frame-dependent page images at MOA)
• The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days, by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz (Gutenberg text)
• The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Padraic Colum, illust. by Wilfred Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Voyage of Verrazzano: A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America, by Henry Cruse Murphy (Gutenberg text)
• The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1914), by Stephen Leacock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1915), by Stephen Leacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, by Samuel de Champlain, trans. by Charles Pomeroy Otis, contrib. by Edmund F. Slafter
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
  • volume III: Gutenberg text

• The Ruins of Great Ireland in New England (Boston: Meador Pub. Co., c1946), by William B. Goodwin, contrib. by Malcolm D. Pearson, illust. by Vincent T. Fagan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Buckskin Brigade (c1947), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Norsemen in the West: or, America Before Columbus, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Vinland Champions (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1904), by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, illust. by Margaret West Kinney and Troy Kinney (page images at HathiTrust)

• America's Story, for America's Children (5 volumes; Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1900-1901), by Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick
  • Volume I (The Beginner's Book): multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume I (The Beginner's Book): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II (Exploration and Discovery, A.D. 1000 to 1609): multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume III (The Early Colonies) multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume III (The Early Colonies) multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (The Later Colonial Period): multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume IV (The Later Colonial Period): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (The Foundations of the Republic): multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume V (The Foundations of the Republic): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Flatey Book and Recently Discovered Vatican Manuscripts, Concerning America as Early as the Tenth Century (based on the 1908 Norraena Society publication) (HTML at northvegr.org)
• The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen, With Translations from the Icelandic Sagas (second edition; Albany, NY: J. Munsell's Sons, 1890), by B. F. DeCosta (multiple formats at archive.org)

• As Duas Americas (second edition, in Portuguese; Lisbon: J. Bastos, 1900), by Candido Costa, illust. by António Ramalho
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• O Descobridor do Brazil: Pedro Alvares Cabral (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Academia Real das Sciencias, 1897), by Visconde de Sanches de Baena (PDF files at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)

• Memoir on the European Colonization of America, in Ante-Historic Times (1851), by Augustus Christian Adolf Zestermann (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology (New York: Harper and Bros., c1871), by John D. Baldwin (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• L'Histoire Naturelle et Generalle des Indes, Isles, et Terre Ferme de la Grand Mer Oceane (in French; Paris: Imp. de M. de Vascosan, 1555), by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, trans. by Jean Poleur (page images at Gallica)

• The History of North and South America, From its Discovery, to the Death of General Washington (Philadelphia et al.: Johnson and Warner, 1811), by Richard Snowden (illustrated HTML at roanetnhistory.org)
• South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Cyrus Townsend Brady, illust. by Seymour M. Stone, George Gibbs, W. J. Aylward, and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Irving Albert Leonard (HTML at UC Press)
• Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at ibiblio.org)
• The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Fanny Bandelier (HTML at PBS)
• The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1905), by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, ed. by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, trans. by Fanny Bandelier, contrib. by Marca da Nizza and Antonio de Mendoza
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • audio reading at Librivox
• Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain (Boston: T. E. Wait and Son, 1827), by Christopher Columbus, ed. by Bartolomé de las Casas, trans. by Samuel Kettell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (volumes from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
  • Volume I: page images at MOA
  • Volume II: page images at MOA
  • Volume III: page images at MOA

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