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• Buccaneers -- History
• Discoveries in geography -- History
• Ocean travel -- History
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• Voyages around the world -- History
• Voyages and travels -- Asia -- History
• Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800 -- History

• Stories of voyages : being authentic narratives of the most celebrated voyages from Columbus to Parry, with accounts of remarkable shipwrecks and naval adventures. (J. A. Noble, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Britain's sea story, B.C. 55-A.D. 1805 : being the story of British heroism in voyaging and sea-fight from Alfred's time to the Battle of Trafalgar : with an introduction tracing the development of the structure of sailing ships from the earliest times (Hodder and Stoughton, 1906), by R. Morton Nance and E. E. Speight (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Viaggio di Jacopo da Sanseverino (tip. Giusti, 1868), by Jacopo Salimbeni (page images at HathiTrust)

• Voyages to the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-west coast, Feejee Islands, South Shetlands, &c. ... with an account of the new discoveries made in the southern hemisphere, between the years 1830-1837 ... (W.H. Vermilye, 1838), by Edmund Fanning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viajes a las cinco partes del mundo : relaciones, aventuras, esploraciones y descubrimientos (Libreria de Rosa y Bouret, 1869), by Lorenzo Campano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cruise of the United States flag-ship,Lancaster, cruise of 1884-87, including a few words on her first cruise in European waters. (United States Flagship Lancaster, 1887), by W. E. J. McCarthy and Lorenzo Hoag (page images at HathiTrust)

• Résumé historique de l'exploration faite dans l'Afrique centrale de 1855 à 1856, par le docteur Édouard Vogel (Arthus Bertrand, 1858), by Victor Adolfe Malte-Brun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824 (John Murray, 1826), by Dixon Denham, Abraham V. Salamé, Walter Oudney, and Hugh Clapperton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cruise of the United States flag-ship,Lancaster, cruise of 1884-87, including a few words on her first cruise in European waters. (United States Flagship Lancaster, 1887), by W. E. J. McCarthy and Lorenzo Hoag (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Woodruff scientific expedition around the world. 1879-1880. (Printed at the Riverside Press, 1878), by Woodruff Scientific Expedition Around the World (1877-1879) and Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exploring Desert Stone: John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2010), by Steven K. Madsen
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
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• A Route for the Overland Stage: James H. Simpson's 1859 Trail Across the Great Basin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Jesse G. Petersen, contrib. by David L. Bigler (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• A route for the overland stage : James H. Simpson's 1859 trail across the Great Basin (Utah State University Press, 2008), by Jesse G. Petersen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud : de Rio de Janeiro à Lima, et de Lima au Para (P. Bertrand, libraire-éditeur, 1850), by Francis Castelnau, Jean Jacques Champin, L. Martinet, and P. Bertrand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Twenty years before the mast, with the more thrilling scenes and incidents while circumnavigating the globe under the command of the late Admiral Charles Wilkes, 1838-1842 (The author, 1890), by Charles Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lower class (Caxton, 1938), by George Youell and Anton Otto Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Voyage Round the World: Including an Embassy to Muscat and Siam in 1835, 1836, and 1837 (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838), by W. S. W. Ruschenberger (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
• 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 edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by Charles Darwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• 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)
• Mi Viaje Alrededor del Mundo (Spanish edition of "The Voyage of the Beagle"; 2 volumes in 1; Valencia and Madrid: F. Sempere y Co., ca. 1903), by Charles Darwin, trans. by Constantino Piquer
  • both books: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Book 1: page images in Spain
  • Book 2 (from a different edition): page images in Spain
• The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
  • HTML at esp.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Voyage of the Beagle (Harvard Classics v29, with introduction and notes; New York: P.F. Collier, 1909), by Charles Darwin
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  • HTML at Bartleby
• The Voyage of the Beagle (based on the eleventh edition of 1890, reprinted 1913), by Charles Darwin (Gutenberg text)
• A voyage round the world: with a history of the Oregon mission ... To which is appended a full description of Oregon Territory, its geography, history and religion; designed for the benefit of emigrants to that rising country. (G. H. Derby and co., 1850), by Gustavus Hines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty years before the mast, with the more thrilling scenes and incidents while circumnavigating the globe under the command of the late Admiral Charles Wilkes, 1838-1842 (The author, 1890), by Charles Erskine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Woodruff scientific expedition around the world. 1879-1880. (Printed at the Riverside Press, 1878), by Woodruff Scientific Expedition Around the World (1877-1879) and Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" round the world. Under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. (Ward, Lock and co., 1889), by Charles Darwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante" 1879-1882. (Macmillan and co., 1886), by duke of Clarence and Avondale Albert Victor, John Neale Dalton, King of Great Britain George V, Richard Clay and Sons, and Macmillan & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Voyage Round the World, from 1806 to 1812: In Which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian islands, and the Sandwich Islands were Visited; Including a Narrative of the Author's Shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and His Subsequent Wreck in the Ship's Long-Boat; with an Account of the Present State of the Sandwich Islands, and a Vocabulary of Their Language., by Archibald Campbell, ed. by James Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III: (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the: Austrian Navy., by Karl Scherzer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II: (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the: Austrian Navy., by Karl Scherzer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I: (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the: Austrian Navy., by Karl Scherzer, contrib. by Alexander von Humboldt (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Reis om de Wereld (in Dutch), by Charles Darwin, trans. by J. Brandt (Gutenberg ebook)

• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and Executions: Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West-Indies, and the Expedition of Commodore Porter; also, Those Committed on the Brig Mexican, Who Were Tried and Executed at Boston, in 1835, by Ezra Baldwin Strong (Gutenberg ebook)

• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates (Hartford: S. Andrus and Son, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historie der boecaniers, of vrybuyters van America : van haar eerste beginzelen tot deze tegenwoordige tyd toe : met figuuren.. (By Nicolaas ten Hoorn, boekverkooper ..., 1700), by A. O. Exquemelin, Nicolaas ten Hoorn, Sieur de Montauban, Jan Lamsvelt, and Cornelis Huyberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of the Lives and Bloody Exploits of the Most Noted Pirates; Their Trials and Executions: Including a Correct Account of the Late Piracies Committed in the West-Indies, and the Expedition of Commodore Porter; also, Those Committed on the Brig Mexican, Who Were Tried and Executed at Boston, in 1835, by Ezra Baldwin Strong (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Life of Sir Henry Morgan; With an Account of the English Settlement of the Island of Jamaica (1655-1688) (1935), by E. A. Cruikshank (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The sea and its living wonders (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), by G. Hartwig and Henry Noel Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sea and Its Living Wonders: A Popular Account of the Marvels of the Deep and of the Progress of Martime Discovery from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, by G. Hartwig (Gutenberg ebook)

• The journal of a voyage to Lisbon (Riverside Press, 1902), by Henry Fielding, Bruce Rogers, and Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works of Henry Fielding, vol. 11: A Journey From This World to the Next; and A Voyage to Lisbon, by Henry Fielding, ed. by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg ebook)

• Pacific steamers (Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1927), by Will Lawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of steam navigation, by John Kennedy (Gutenberg ebook)

• History of the Cunard Steamship Company. (s.n., 1886), by John Haskell Kemble and ltd Cunard Steamship Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mory & Cie., 1804-1904 : notice historique (H. Bouillant, 1905), by Henri Mory (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Fulfilment of three remarkable prophecies in the history of the great Empire State relating to the development of steamboat navigation and railroad transportation, 1808-1908 ([publisher not identified], 1909), by Henry Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Meren kirja : Mainetekoja ja suuria saavutuksia ulapoilla ja rantamilla, piirteitä merenkulun historiasta ja laivamuotojen kehityksestä (in Finnish), by O. A. Joutsen (Gutenberg ebook)

• Marine salvage in the United States Navy (Naval History & Heritage Command, Naval Sea Systems Command, Dept. of the Navy :, 2009), by C. A. Bartholomew, William I. Milwee, and Naval History & Heritage Command (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Über die niederdeutschen Seebücher des fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhunderts (L. Friedrichsen, 1906), by Walter Behrmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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