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• Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at Eldritch Press)
• 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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• 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)

• 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)

• Christopher Columbus, by Mildred Stapley Byne (Gutenberg text)
• Christopher Columbus: A Latter-Day Saint Perspective (1992), by Arnold K. Garr (PDF files at BYU)
• Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery, by Filson Young (Gutenberg text)
• 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
• The Life of Christopher Columbus: From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time, by Edward Everett Hale
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral, by Elbridge S. Brooks
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Unpublished Orations, by John Fiske (HTML at elfinspell.com)

• Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez, Written on Board the Caravel While Returning From His First Voyage (translations into Latin and English; Chicago: W. H. Lowdermilk Co., 1893), by Christopher Columbus (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Historia de las Indias (5 volumes in Spanish; Madrid: M. Ginesta, 1875-1876), by Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Tomo I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo III: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Tomo IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Tomo V: multiple formats at archive.org

• 1492, by Mary Johnston
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Columbus (c1941), by Rafael Sabatini (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Mercedes of Castile (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867), by James Fenimore Cooper (frame-dependent page images at MOA)

• Columbus and De Soto (Boston and Chicago: Educational Pub. Co., 1891), by Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of Columbus (Boston et al.: Educational Pub. Co., c1892), by Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Columbiad: A Poem, by Joel Barlow
  • page images at MOA
  • Gutenberg text

• Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at Eldritch Press)
• 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
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)

• The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)

• The Lure of the Labrador Wild: The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., by Dillon Wallace (Gutenberg text)

• The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
• Laperouse, by Ernest Scott
  • PDF at SETIS
  • Gutenberg text

• 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)
• The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1893), by Isabel Burton
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg text)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
• The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton (London: H. S. Nichols, 1896), by Georgiana M. Stisted (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Discourse in Commendation of the Valiant as Vertuous Minded Gentleman, Maister Frauncis Drake, With a Reioysing of His Happy Aduentures (1581), by Nicholas Breton (page images at LOC)
• The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)
• The Life of Captain James Cook (Basel, Switzerland: Printed by J.J. Tourneisen, 1788), by Andrew Kippis
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Simon Fraser (Toronto: Ryerson Press, ca. 1928), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton, illust. by Charles W. Jefferys (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (based on the 1912 Stokes edition), by Matthew Alexander Henson, contrib. by Robert E. Peary and Booker T. Washington (PDF with commentary at matthewhenson.com)

• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
  • HTML at xmission.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)

• Saint James's Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmírez of Santiago de Compostela, by Richard A. Fletcher (frame-dependent HTML at Libro)

• Saint James's Catapult: The Life and Times of Diego Gelmírez of Santiago de Compostela, by Richard A. Fletcher (frame-dependent HTML at Libro)

• The Contemporary Challenge of John of the Cross: An Introduction to His Life and Teaching, by Leonard Doohan (HTML at archive.org)
• Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle (HTML at UC Press)

• The Courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the Court of Spain (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by James M. Boyden (HTML at UC Press)

• Homage to Catalonia (1938), by George Orwell (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes, trans. by Robert S. Rudder (Gutenberg text)

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