Ottawa (Ont.) -- Description and travel
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Records of the Rise and Progress of the City of Ottawa: From the Foundation of the Rideau Canal to the Present Time (Ottawa: Printed at the Office of the Ottawa Citizen, 1858), by Gertrude Van Cortlandt (multiple formats at archive.org)- French Canadian Life and Character With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of the Scenery and Life in Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, and Surrounding Country (Chicago: A. Belford, 1899), by George Monro Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
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Filed under: Ottawa (Ont.) -- History- Records of the Rise and Progress of the City of Ottawa: From the Foundation of the Rideau Canal to the Present Time (Ottawa: Printed at the Office of the Ottawa Citizen, 1858), by Gertrude Van Cortlandt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Droits et Voix: Rights and Voices (with articles in French and English; c2010), ed. by Véronique Strimelle and Françoise Vanhamme (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
- The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters From the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America (London: C. Knight, 1836), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill
- A Brief Account, Together With Observations, Made During a Visit in the West Indies, and a Tour Through the United States of America, in Parts of the Years 1832-3; Together With a Statistical Account of Upper Canada (Dundas, ON: G. H. Hackstaff, 1836), by Thomas Rolph
- Diary of Gov. Simcoe's Journey from Humber Bay to Matchetache Bay, 1793 (extracted from Transactions of the Canadian Institute, 1890), by Alexander Macdonell
- Hints to Emigrants, in a Series of Letters From Upper Canada (Edinburgh: Printed for Waugh and Innes, 1824), by William Bell (HTML at globalgenealogy.com)
- Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush (London: R. Bentley, 1853), by Susanna Moodie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush, by Susanna Moodie (Gutenberg text and audio)
- Roughing It in the Bush (second edition, with additions, 2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1852), by Susanna Moodie
- Roughing It in the Bush, by Susanna Moodie, ed. by Andrew Sly (Gutenberg text)
- Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada (first edition; London: R. Bentley, 1852), by Susanna Moodie
- Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1854), by Susanna Moodie
- Roughing It in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada (new and revised edition; Toronto and Montreal: Hunter, Rose and Co.; Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1871), by Susanna Moodie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sketches in Canada, and Rambles Among the Red Men (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852), by Mrs. Jameson
- Sketches of Upper Canada, Domestic, Local, and Characteristic: to Which Are Added, Practical Details for the Information of Emigrants of Every Class: and Some Recollections of the United States of America (Edinburgh; London: Oliver & Boyd ... ;G. & W.B. Whittaker ... , 1821), by John Howison (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (3 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), by Mrs. Jameson
- Winterstudien und Sommerstreifereien in Canada (3 volumes in German; Braunschweig: F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1839), by Mrs. Jameson
- Crazy-White-Man (Sha-ga-na-she Wa-du-kee) (Chicago et al.: Rand McNally, c1952), by Richard Morenus, illust. by William Lackey (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Canadas in 1841 (London: H. Colburn, 1841-1842), by Richard Henry Bonnycastle
- The Georgian Bay: An Account of its Position, Inhabitants, Mineral Interests, Fish, Timber and Other Resources (Toronto: The Carswell Co., ca. 1893), by James Cleland Hamilton, illust. by Mrs. Jameson, R. S. Cassels, and H. J. Browne (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West, Or, The Experience of an Early Settler (London: R. Bentley, 1853), by Samuel Strickland, ed. by Agnes Strickland
- A Plea for Emigration, or, Notes of Canada West, in Its Moral, Social, and Political Aspect, With Suggestions Respecting Mexico, West Indies, and Vancouver's Island, For the Information of Colored Emigrants (1852), by Mary Ann Shadd Cary (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Niagara Park Illustrated: Original and Selected Descriptions, Poems and Adventures (New York: W. T. Hunter, 1888), ed. by Alice Hyneman Sotheran (page images at HathiTrust)
- De Paris au Niagara: Journal de Voyage d'une Délégation (in French; Paris: A. Dupret, 1887), by Charles Bigot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Description of Views of the Falls of Niagara and the City of Jerusalem: Now Exhibiting in the Large Circle of the Panorama, Leicester Square (London: Printed by W. J. Goldbourn, 1851), by Robert Burford, contrib. by Henry Courtney Selous
- Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and Other Matters Worthy of Notice Made By Mr. John Bartram, in His Travels From Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada: To Which Is Annex'd a Curious Account of the Cataracts At Niagara By Mr. Peter Kalm, a Swedish Gentleman Who Travelled There (London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1751), by John Bartram and Pehr Kalm
- Whirlpool Heights: The Dream House on the Niagara (London: G. Allen and Unwin Ltd., c1915), by Julia Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Simcoe Relic Among the Thousand Isles in 1796: Fragment of a MS. Journal of Mrs. Simcoe (1896), by Elizabeth Simcoe, ed. by Henry Scadding (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Toronto of Old: Collections and Recollections Illustrative of the Early Settlement and Social Life of the Capital of Ontario (Toronto: Adam, Stevenson and Co., 1873), by Henry Scadding (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Scutari, the Bosphorus and the Crimea: Twenty Four Sketches (2 volumes; Ventor: J. Lavars, 1857), by Lady Alicia Blackwood
- Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains: An Exploration (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1863), by Richard Francis Burton
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- The Congo and Coasts of Africa (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Richard Harding Davis
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A Voice From the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Herbert Ward
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
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