South America -- Description and travel

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• South America

• Bolivia -- Description and travel
• Chile -- Description and travel
• Ecuador -- Description and travel
• Peru -- Description and travel

• South America -- Description and travel -- 1951-1980
• South America -- Description and travel -- 1981-

• A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open, by Theodore Roosevelt (HTML at Bartleby)
• China to Peru over the Andes: A Journey Through South America (London: S. Low, Marston, and co., ca. 1894), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by C. E. Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Deck and Port: or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California; with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco (New York: A. S. Barnes; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1850), by Walter Colton (page images at MOA)
• Gerstäcker's Travels, by Friedrich Gerstäcker (HTML at LOC)
• Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure, by Fritz W. Up de Graff (HTML at Virginia)
• Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy (New York: Appleton, 1871), by Charles Darwin (PDF at gasl.org)
• Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle (illustrated edition; London: John Murray, 1890), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML and page images at Charles Darwin Online)
• Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1908), by Richard Spruce, ed. by Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Volume I: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: page images at Google; US access only
• Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, by Alexander von Humboldt and Aime Bonpland, ed. by Thomasina Ross
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
  • volume 3: Gutenberg text
• The South American Tour (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), by Annie S. Peck (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Through Five Republics on Horseback: Being An Account of Many Wanderings in South America, by G. Whitfield Ray (Gutenberg text)
• The Two Americas: An Account of Sport and Travel, with Notes on Men and Manners in North and South America, by Rose Lambart Price (page images at MOA)
• What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and At the Hawaiian Islands, by Henry Willis Baxley (page images at MOA)

• An Account of a Voyage Up the River de la Plata, and Thence Over Land to Peru: With Observations on the Inhabitants, as Well as Indians and Spaniards; the Cities, Commerce, Fertility, and Riches of That Part of America (London: Printed for S. Buckley, 1698), by Acarete du Biscay (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Chile (Washington, DC: Pan American Union, reprinted 1969), by Merri Holway (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Journal of a Residence in Chile, During the Year 1822; and a Voyage From Chile to Brazil in 1823 (1824), by Maria Callcott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Pampas and Andes: A Thousand Miles' Walk Across South America (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869), by Nathaniel H. Bishop (HTML at Eldritch press)

• On the Banks of the Amazon, by William Henry Giles Kingston
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • PDF and other formats at archive.org

• Across Unknown South America (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru, by Hiram Bingham
  • illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Pérégrinations d'une Paria (1833-1834) (2 volumes, in French; Paris: A. Bertrand, 1838), by Flora Tristan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850, by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (page images at MOA)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• China to Peru over the Andes: A Journey Through South America (London: S. Low, Marston, and co., ca. 1894), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by C. E. Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
  • HTML at esp.org
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Voyage of the Beagle (based on the eleventh edition of 1890, reprinted 1913), by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text)

• MERCOSUR and the Creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005), ed. by Fernando Lorenzo and Marcel Vaillant (PDF with commentary at wilsoncenter.org)

• María: A South American Romance (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1890), by Jorge Isaacs, trans. by Rollo Ogden, contrib. by Thomas A. Janvier (page images at Google; US access only)

• Boy Scouts in an Airship: or, The Warning From the Sky, by G. Harvey Ralphson (Gutenberg text)
• Jack North's Treasure Hunt, or, Daring Adventures in South America, by Roy Rockwood (Gutenberg text)
• Lost in the Forest, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• Tom Swift in Captivity: or, A Daring Escape by Airship, by Victor Appleton
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War Between Chili and Peru, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Up the Forked River: or, Adventures in South America (published under "Seward Lisle" pseudonym; Philadelphia: H. T. Coates and Co., c1904), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Bolivia: A Country Study, ed. by Rex A. Hudson and Dennis M. Hanratty (HTML at LOC)

• Chile: A Country Study, ed. by Rex A. Hudson (HTML at LOC)

• Colombia: A Country Study, ed. by Dennis M. Hanratty and Sandra W. Meditz (HTML at LOC)

• Ecuador: A Country Study, ed. by Dennis M. Hanratty (HTML at LOC)

• Paraguay: A Country Study, ed. by Dennis M. Hanratty and Sandra W. Meditz (HTML at LOC)

• The Old and the New Peru: A Story of the Ancient Inheritance and the Modern Growth and Enterprise of a Great Nation (Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons; et al., ca. 1908), by Marie Robinson Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peru: A Country Study, ed. by Rex A. Hudson (HTML at LOC)

• Uruguay: A Country Study, ed. by Rex A. Hudson and Sandra W. Meditz (HTML at LOC)

• Venezuela: A Country Study, ed. by Richard A. Haggerty (HTML at LOC)

• Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1908), by Richard Spruce, ed. by Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Volume I: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: page images at Google; US access only

• Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology, by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg zipped illustrated HTML)
• Geological Observations on South America, by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text)
• Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands and Parts of South America Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" (second edition; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1876), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML and page images at Charles Darwin Online)
• Geological Observations on Volcanic Islands, by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text)

• China to Peru over the Andes: A Journey Through South America (London: S. Low, Marston, and co., ca. 1894), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by C. E. Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Neglected Crops: 1492 From a Different Perspective, ed. by J. Esteban Hernandez Bermejo and J. Leon (HTML at fao.org)

• An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians, by Walter E. Roth (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas, ed. by Clements R. Markham (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

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