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Filed under: Üsküdar (Istanbul, Turkey) -- Description and travel

Scutari, the Bosphorus and the Crimea: Twenty Four Sketches (2 volumes; Ventor: J. Lavars, 1857), by Lady Alicia Blackwood
- Scutari and the Bosphorus volume: multiple formats at archive.org
- Crimea volume: multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: Abeokuta (Nigeria) -- Description and travel

Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains: An Exploration (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1863), by Richard Francis Burton
- Volume I: multiple formats at Google
- Volume II: multiple formats at Google

Filed under: Abruzzo (Italy) -- Description and travel

In the Abruzzi (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908), by Anne Macdonell, illust. by Amy Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
In the Abruzzi (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1908), by Anne Macdonell, illust. by Amy Atkinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Description and travel

The Adirondack: or, Life in the Woods, by J. T. Headley (page images at MOA)
Adventures in the Wilderness, by W. H. H. Murray (page images at MOA)
Woods and Waters: or, The Saranacs and Racket, by Alfred Billings Street (page images at MOA)

Filed under: Adriatic Sea -- Description and travel

The Eastern Shores of the Adriatic in 1863, With a Visit to Montenegro (London: R. Bentley, 1864), by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford (page images at Google)

Filed under: Afghanistan -- Description and travel

Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in That City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 (from the second edition; Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1843), by Alexander Burnes
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust

Filed under: Africa -- Description and travel

Africa and its Inhabitants (4 volumes; London: Virtue and Co., ca. 1899), by Elisée Reclus, ed. by A. H. Keane
Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia and the Abyssines, With All the Adjacent Islands, Either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern or Oriental Sea, Belonging Thereunto (London: Printed by T. Johnson for the author, 1670), by John Ogilby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
An Amateur in Africa (New York: The Adelphi Co., ca. 1925), by C. Lestock Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
My Journey From Rhodesia to Egypt, Including an Ascent of Ruwenzori and a Short Account of the Route From Cape Town to Broken Hill and Lado to Alexandria (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1911), by Theo Kassner (multiple formats at archive.org)
Round the Black Man's Garden (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1903), by Zélie Colvile (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Woman's Winter in Africa: A 26,000 Mile Journey (London: S. Paul and Co., c1913), by Charlotte Cameron
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Congo and Coasts of Africa (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Richard Harding Davis
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- multiple formats at archive.org
Great African Travellers, from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Travels of a Philosopher: or, Observations on the Manners and Arts of Various Nations in Africa and Asia (Augusta: Reprinted by P. Edes, 1797), by Pierre Poivre (HTML at Evans TCP)
The Blind African Slave, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace, by Boyrereau Brinch and Benjamin F. Prentiss (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: Africa, Central -- Description and travel

The Black Journey: Across Central Africa With the Citroën Expedition (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1927), by Georges-Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (page images at HathiTrust)
Adventures Beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913), by Edith Cecil Maturin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Adventures Beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1913), by Edith Cecil Maturin (multiple formats at archive.org)
Five Years with the Congo Cannibals (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1890), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
Five Years With the Congo Cannibals (third edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile: An Account of the German Central African Expedition of 1910-1911 (2 volumes; London: Duckworth and Co., 1913), by Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Adolf Friedrich
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Geographical Notes of Expeditions in Central Africa by Three Dutch Ladies (Liverpool: T. Brakell, 1864), by John A. Tinne (page images at Google)
Great Explorations in the Wilds of Africa (Toronto: A. H. Hovey and Co., 1886), ed. by J. T. Headley (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871 (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1874), by Georg August Schweinfurth, trans. by Ellen E. Frewer, contrib. by Winwood Reade
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
In Darkest Africa: or The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), by Henry M. Stanley (multiple formats at archive.org)
Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, by Samuel White Baker (Gutenberg text)
The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration (2 volumes; London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), by Richard Francis Burton
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa (originally published 1859), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF at burtoniana.org)
Tramps Round the Mountains of the Moon and Through the Back Gate of the Congo State (London et al.: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), by T. Broadwood Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Auspices of H. B. M.'s Government in the Years 1849-1855 (5 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857-1858), by Heinrich Barth
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
A Voice From the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Herbert Ward
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
After Big Game in Central Africa: Records of a Sportsman From August 1894 to November 1897, When Crossing the Dark Continent From the Mouth of the Zambesi to the French Congo (London: A. and C. Black, 1899), by Edouard Foà, trans. by Frederic Lees (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Boy Travellers on the Congo: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey with Henry M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent" (New York: Harper and Bros., 1888), by Thomas Wallace Knox, contrib. by Henry M. Stanley
- page images at Google; US access only
- multiple formats at archive.org
Explorations in Africa, by Dr. David Livingstone, and Others, Giving a Full Account of the Stanley-Livingstone Expedition of Search, Under the Patronage of the New York "Herald", As Furnished by Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley (1872), ed. by Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, contrib. by David Livingstone and Henry M. Stanley (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
From Hausaland to Egypt, Through the Sudan (London: Constable and Co., 1910), by Karl Kumm
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
From Ruwenzori to the Congo: A Naturalist's Journey Across Africa (London: J. Murray, 1908), by A. F. R. Wollaston (multiple formats at archive.org)
My Second Journey Through Equatorial Africa From the Congo to the Zambesi in the Years 1886 and 1887 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Hermann von Wissmann, trans. by Minna J. A. Bergmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, and of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864, by David Livingstone (Gutenberg text)
Correspondenzblatt der Afrikanischen Gesellschaft (2 volumes bound together, covering 1873-1878), by Afrikanische Gesellschaft in Deutschland
- multiple formats at Google
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
A Visit to Stanley's Rear-Guard at Major Barttelot's Camp on the Aruhwimi, With an Account of the River-Life on the Congo (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1889), by John Reinhardt Werner (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Africa, East -- Description and travel

Men and Creatures in Uganda (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1933), by John Bland-Sutton (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures, by J. H. Patterson, contrib. by Frederick Courteney Selous (unillustrated Gutenberg text)
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures (London: Macmillan, 1907), by J. H. Patterson, contrib. by Frederick Courteney Selous
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
My African Journey (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1908), by Winston Churchill (multiple formats at HathiTrust; US access only)
My African Journey (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1909), by Winston Churchill
- multiple formats at archive.org
- Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, Performed in His Majesty's Ships, Leven and Barracouta, from 1821 to 1826, Under the Command of Capt. F.W. Owen, R.N. (2 volumes; London; R. Bentley, 1835), by Thomas Boteler
- Volume I: page images at Google
- Volume II: page images at Google
Sultan to Sultan: Adventures Among the Masai and Other Tribes of East Africa (Boston: Arena Pub. Co.; London: Saxon and co., 1892), by Mary French Sheldon (multiple formats at archive.org)
Through Unknown African Countries: The First Expedition from Somaliland to Lake Rudolf (London and New York: E. Arnold, 1897), by Arthur Donaldson Smith, contrib. by Albert C. L. G. Günther, Eugène Simon, R. I. Pocock, W. J. Holland, J. W. Gregory, G. C. Crick, Stewart Culin, and Karl Jordan (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
Travels in Eastern Africa; With the Narrative of a Residence in Mozambique (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1860), by Lyons McLeod (page images at HathiTrust)
Voyage à la Côte Orientale d'Afrique Pendant l'Année 1866 (in French; Paris: Gaume Freres and J. Duprey, 1872), by R. P. Horner, ed. by J. Gaume
- multiple formats at Google
- page images at HathiTrust
- multiple formats at archive.org
Zanzibar: City, Island and Coast (2 volumes; London: Tinsley, 1872), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF page image files at burtoniana.org)
By the Equator's Snowy Peak: A Record of Medical Missionary Work and Travel in British East Africa (London: Church Missionary Society, 1913), by Emily May Crawford (multiple formats at archive.org)
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, by John Hanning Speke
- Gutenberg text
- frame-dependent HTML at wollamshram.ca
The Land of Footprints, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)
On the Gorilla Trail (New York and London: Appleton, 1923), by Mary Hastings Bradley (multiple formats at archive.org)
Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon (London and New York: E. Arnold, 1895), by Alice Blanche Balfour (multiple formats at archive.org)
W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia, and British East Africa (London: M. Singer and Co., 1906), by Burchard Heinrich Jessen
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
Descripción de los Reinos, Costas, Puertos e Islas que hay Desde el Cabo de Buena Esperanza Hasta los Leyquios; Libro que Trata del Descubrimiento y Principio del Estrecho que se Llama de Magallanes; y Descrición de Parte del Japón (in Spanish; first part variously attributed to Barbosa or Magalhaes (Magellan); Madrid: Estab. Tip. de Torrent y Compañía, 1920), ed. by Antonio Blázquez y Delgado Aguilera, contrib. by Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães, and Ginés de Mafra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Flying and Sport in East Africa (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1920), by Leo Walmsley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
With Stanley on the Congo (London: Nelson, n.d.), by M. Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)

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