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Filibusters

Here are entered works on irregular military adventurers, typically from the United States, who during the 19th century took part in armed expeditions against other nations, usually Latin American.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Adventure and adventurers

• Soldiers of fortune

• Filibusters -- Central America

• Freebooters
• Filibuster (military)

• The Story of the Filibusters; To Which is Added the Life of Colonel David Crockett (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by James Jeffrey Roche
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Historia de los Filibusteros (translated into Spanish; San José de Costa Rica: Impr. Nacional, 1908), by James Jeffrey Roche, trans. by Manuel Carazo Peralta
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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

• Real Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text)
• Real Soldiers of Fortune (illustrated; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911), by Richard Harding Davis (PDF at djm.cc)

• Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence (2 volumes; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1866), by Heros von Borcke
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1867), by Heros von Borcke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Zwei Jahre im Sattel und am Feinde: Erinnerungen aus dem Unabhändgigkeitskreige der Konföderirten (first German edition; 2 volumes in 1; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1877), by Heros von Borcke, trans. by Otto August Johannes Kaehler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei Jahre im Sattel und am Feinde: Erinnerungen aus dem Unabhändgigkeitskreige der Konföderirten (second edition; 2 volumes in 1; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1886), by Heros von Borcke, trans. by Otto August Johannes Kaehler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei Jahre im Sattel und am Feinde: Erinnerungen aus dem Unabhändgigkeitskreige der Konföderirten (third edition; 2 volumes; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1898), by Heros von Borcke, trans. by Otto August Johannes Kaehler
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence (2 volumes; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1866), by Heros von Borcke
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1867), by Heros von Borcke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Zwei Jahre im Sattel und am Feinde: Erinnerungen aus dem Unabhändgigkeitskreige der Konföderirten (first German edition; 2 volumes in 1; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1877), by Heros von Borcke, trans. by Otto August Johannes Kaehler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei Jahre im Sattel und am Feinde: Erinnerungen aus dem Unabhändgigkeitskreige der Konföderirten (second edition; 2 volumes in 1; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1886), by Heros von Borcke, trans. by Otto August Johannes Kaehler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zwei Jahre im Sattel und am Feinde: Erinnerungen aus dem Unabhändgigkeitskreige der Konföderirten (third edition; 2 volumes; Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1898), by Heros von Borcke, trans. by Otto August Johannes Kaehler
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Colonel Heros von Borcke, a Famous Prussian Volunteer in the Confederate States Army (Southern Sketches #2, first series; Charlottesville: Historical Pub. Co., 1935), by Edgar Erskine Hume, ed. by J. D. Eggleston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gordon Craig, Soldier of Fortune (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1912), by Randall Parrish, illust. by Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Marching Sands (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1920), by Harold Lamb
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text)
• Soldiers of Fortune (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Richard Harding Davis, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; frontispiece page missing

• Valperga, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (HTML at Bibliomania)
• Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (3 vollumes; London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1823), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume III: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Maurice Tiernay, Soldier of Fortune (London: Downey and Co., 1898), by Charles Lever, illust. by A. D. McCormick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Sir John Hawkwood (L'Acuto): Story of a Condottiere (London: T. F. Unwin, 1889), by John Temple Leader and Giuseppe Marcotti, trans. by Leader Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sir John Hawkwood (L'Acuto): Story of a Condottiere (London: T. F. Unwin, 1889), by John Temple Leader and Giuseppe Marcotti, trans. by Leader Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sir John Hawkwood: A Tale of the White Company in Italy (New York: R. F. Fenno and Co., c1911), by Marion Polk Angellotti (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Life and Surprising Adventures of Mary Ann Talbot, in the Name of John Taylor (1809), by Mary Ann Talbot, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
• Heart of Asia: True Tales of the Far East (c1951), by Roy Chapman Andrews (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys (c1922), by John Buchan (illustrated HTML at Roy Glashan's Library)
• The Diary of a Soldier of Fortune, by Stanley Portal Hyatt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Journey Over Land to India, Partly by a Route Never Gone Before by Any European (3 parts in 1 volume; London: Printed for Cullen and Co., 1795), by Donald Campbell
  • Gutenberg text with corrections
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy: A Weird Series of Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster, From The Earliest Part of The Century To The Present Time, With Accounts of Providential Escapes and Heart-Rending Fatalities (New York: Hurst and Co., n.d.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Venturesome Voyages of Captain John Voss, by John Claus Voss (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, by Louis de Rougemont (Gutenberg text)

• Letters of Edward John Trelawny (London et al.: H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910), by Edward John Trelawny, ed. by H. Buxton Forman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Jack Wright and His Electric Air Rocket: or, The Boy Exile of Siberia (Boys' star library #341 by "Noname"; c1893), by Luis Senarens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Heroine of the White Nile, or, What a Woman Did and Dared: A Sketch of the Remarkable Travels and Experiences of Miss Alexandrine Tinné (New York: Phillips and Hunt; Cincinnati: Walden and Stowe, 1881), by William Wells (page images at ohiomemory.org)
• The Story of David Livingstone, by Vautier Golding (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Ballad of the Lost Hare (Boston: D. Lothrop, c1882), by Margaret Sidney (page images at LOC)

• The Incurable Filibuster: Adventures of Colonel Dean Ivan Lamb (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, c1934), by Dean Ivan Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wide World Magazine (partial serial archives)

• Explorers and Travellers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by A. W. Greely (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Explorers of Australia, and Their Life-Work (1908), by Ernest Favenc
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Last Secrets: The Final Mysteries of Exploration (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1923), by John Buchan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Notable Voyagers, by William Henry Giles Kingston and Henry Frith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Celebrated Travels and Travellers (3 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880-1882), by Jules Verne, trans. by Dora Leigh and N. D'Anvers, illust. by Léon Benett, Paul Philippoteaux, Charles Émile Matthis, and E. Morieu
  • Volume I (The Exploration of the World): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II (The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume III (The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Breaking the Record: The Story of Three Arctic Expeditions (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by M. Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being the Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), by Louisa Barnes Pratt, ed. by S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Home is the Sailor (Birmingham, AL: Vulcan Press, 1955), by Herbert Hartley and Clint Bonner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Titanic and Other Ships (author died in 1952; work first published 1935), by C. H. Lightoller (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• I'm Alone (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1930), by Jack Randell and Meigs O. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack in the Forecastle: or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale, by John Sherburne Sleeper (Gutenberg text)
• Land-Travel and Sea-Faring (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1891), by Morley Roberts, illust. by A. D. McCormick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Notes by the Way in a Sailor's Life, by Arthur E. Knights (Gutenberg text)
• The Sea Rovers (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1906), by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, illust. by May Fratz (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Windjammers and Sea Tramps (second edition; London et al.: W. Scott Pub. Co., 1905), by Walter Runciman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Lieutenant and Commander: Being Autobiographical Sketches of His Own Career, From Fragments of Voyages and Travels (London: Bell and Daldy, 1862), by Basil Hall (Gutenberg text)
• The Mirror of the Sea, by Joseph Conrad (multiple formats at Standard Ebooks)
• The Mirror of the Sea (third edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1907), by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• My Voyage Around the Globe (Shawano, WI: Wiegand and Esser, printers, 1897), by W. L. Fosdick
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Wooden World Dissected, in the Character of a Ship of War: As Also, the Characters of All the Officers, From the Captain to the Common Sailor (seventh edition, 1760), by Edward Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whaling Wives (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953), by Emma Mayhew Whiting and Henry Beetle Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy: A Weird Series of Tales of Shipwreck and Disaster, From The Earliest Part of The Century To The Present Time, With Accounts of Providential Escapes and Heart-Rending Fatalities (New York: Hurst and Co., n.d.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana (HTML at Bartleby)
• Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, contrib. by Richard Henry Dana (Gutenberg text)
• Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, contrib. by Homer Eaton Keyes (Gutenberg text)

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