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- United States -- Description and travel -- To 1783
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An Outline of American Geography: Regional Landscapes of the United States (1998), by Stephen S. Birdsall and John Florin (HTML at usembassy.de)- Travels With Charley: In Search of America (c1962), by John Steinbeck (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- A Description of Kentucky, in North America; To Which are Prefixed Miscellaneous Observations Respecting the United States (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1945), by Harry Toulmin, ed. by Thomas Dionysius Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
- Peter Testman's Account of His Experiences in North America (Travel and Description Series v2; Minneapolis: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1927), by Peter Testman, trans. by Theodore Christian Blegen (multiple formats at Google)
- Ole Rynning's True Account of America (Travel and Description Series v1; Minneapolis: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1926), by Ole Rynning, trans. by Theodore Christian Blegen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ab-o'th-Yate in Yankeeland: The Results of Two Trips to America (based on the 1885 edition, with added illustrations), by Benjamin Brierley (illustrated HTML in the UK)
- Achenwall's Observations on North America, 1767, by Gottfried Achenwall, trans. by J. G. Rosengarten (page images in Germany)
- Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces, by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA)
- America As I Found It, by Mary Grey Lundie Duncan (page images at MOA)
- America As I Saw It: or, America Revisited (New York: The Macmillan company, 1913), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- America To-Day: Observations and Reflections (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899), by William Archer (Gutenberg text)
- An American Journey (New York: Lovell, Gestefeld and Co., 1892), by Edward B. Aveling (multiple formats at archive.org)
- American Notes, by Rudyard Kipling
- American Notes for General Circulation (London: Chapman and Hall, 1842), by Charles Dickens
- American Notes for General Circulation (London: Chapman and Hall, 1874), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Marcus Stone (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- American Scenes and Christian Slavery: A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States (1849), by Ebenezer Davies (Gutenberg text)
- Among the Americans; and A Stranger in America (Chicago: Belford Clarke and Co., 1881), by George Jacob Holyoake (illustrated HTML in the UK)
- A Canoe Voyage Up the Minnay Sotor (2 volumes), by George William Featherstonhaugh
- De Québec à Lima: Journal d'un Voyage dans les Deux Amériques en 1858 et en 1859 (in French; Paris: L. Hachette et cie., 1860), by Florimond Jacques de Basterot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Der Deutsche Lausbub in Amerika: Erinnerungen und Eindrücke (3 volumes in German; Stuttgart: R. Lutz, c1911-1913), by Erwin Rosen
- Diary in America, by Frederick Marryat
- Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 (32 volumes; Cleveland: A. H. Clark Co., 1904-1907), ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Emigrant's Guide (London: W. Cobbett, 1829), by William Cobbett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations Of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States (1857), by John Benwell (Gutenberg text)
- The Englishwoman in America (London: J. Murray, 1856), by Isabella L. Bird
- Excursions in North America, Described in Letters From a Gentleman and His Young Companion, to Their Friends in England (London: Darton and Harvey, 1806), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)
- Excursions in North America, Described in Letters From a Gentleman and His Young Companion, to Their Friends in England (second edition; London: Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1810), by Priscilla Wakefield (multiple formats at Google)
- Farthest West: Life and Travel in the United States (London: John Long Ltd., 1910), by C. Reginald Enock (page images in Germany)
- First Impressions of the New World on Two Travellers From the Old, in the Autumn of 1858 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1859), by Isabella Strange Trotter (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Geographical Description of the United States, With the Contiguous Countries, Including Mexico and the West Indies (New York: A. T. Goodrich, 1826), by John Melish (page images in Germany)
- The Great Republic: A Descriptive, Statistical, and Historical View of the States and Territories of the American Union (1871), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)
- Haw-Ho-Noo, or, Records of a Tourist (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1850), by Charles Lanman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853), by Fredrika Bremer, trans. by Mary Howitt (page images at Wisconsin)
- Journal of a Tour in the United States, Canada and Mexico (London: S. Low, Marston, 1897), by Winefred Howard of Glossop
- Journal of a Voyage Across the Atlantic: With Notes on Canada and the United States, and Return to Great Britain, in 1844, by George Moore
- The Journal of Latrobe: Being the Notes and Sketches of an Architect, Naturalist and Traveler in The United States from 1796 to 1820 (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1905), by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, contrib. by John H. B. Latrobe (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Journey in North America, Described in Familiar Letters to Amelia Opie (Norwich: Printed for Private Circulation, by Josiah Fletcher, 1841), by Joseph John Gurney (page images in Germany)
- Letters From the United States, Cuba and Canada (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1856), by Amelia M. Murray (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life and Liberty in America: or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada, in 1857-8, by Charles Mackay (page images at MOA)
- Little Journeys in America (Dallas: Southern Pub. Co., c1922), by Rose Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Memoirs of an American Lady: With Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, As They Existed Previous to the Revolution (New York: G. Dearborn, 1836), by Anne MacVicar Grant (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Memorable Days in America: Being a Journal of a Tour to the United States (London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1823), by W. Faux (page images in Germany)
- Mission of the North American People, Geographical, Social, and Political, by William Gilpin (page images at MOA)
- My Diary North and South, by William Howard Russell (page images at MOA)
- My Native Land: The United States, Its Wonders, Its Beauties, and Its People (St. Louis: Blair Publishing Co., 1895), by James Cox (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Native Land: The United States, Its Wonders, Its Beauties, and Its People (1903), by James Cox (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Narrative of a Tour in North America: Comprising Mexico, The Mines of Real del Norte, The United States, and The British Colonies; With an Excursion to The Island of Cuba (2 volumes; London: J. Duncan, 1834), by Henry Tudor
- New World Notes: Being an Account of Journeyings and Sojournings in America and Canada (1875), by John Clay (multiple formats at archive.org)
- North America, by Anthony Trollope
- Our American Cousins: Being Personal Impressions of the People and Institutions of the United States (London: W. Scott, 1883), by W. E. Adams (HTML in the UK)
- The Poetry of Travelling in the United States, by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)
- Poets on Place: Interviews and Tales From the Road (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), ed. by W. T. Pfefferle (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien, Thence to Washington City, in 1829 (Columbus, OH: Isaac N. Whiting, 1831), by Caleb Atwater (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Round Trip from the Hub to the Golden Gate, by Susie C. Clark (HTML at LOC)
- A Round Trip in North America (London: E. Stanford, 1895), by Theodora Guest (multiple formats at archive.org)
- See America First, by Orville O. Hiestand, contrib. by Charles J. Herr (Gutenberg text)
- A Start in Life. A Journey Across America. Fruit Farming in California., by Charles Finch Dowsett (HTML at LOC)
- Through Cities and Prairie Lands: Sketches of an American Tour (Chicago: Belford, Clarke and co., 1882), by Lady Duffus Hardy
- The Tramp at Home (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889), by Lee Meriwether (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Transatlantic Wanderings: or, A Last Look at the United States (London: Geo. Routledge and Co., 1855), by John W. Oldmixon (page images in Germany)
- Travels in North America, Canada, and Nova Scotia: With Geological Observations (London: J. Murray, 1855), by Charles Lyell
- Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828 (3 volumes; Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1829), by Basil Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
- Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850, by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (page images at MOA)
- Travels in the United States of America, Commencing in the Year 1793 and Ending in 1797, With the Author's Journals of His Two Voyages Across the Atlantic (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1802), by William Priest (page images in Germany)
- Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America, During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802 (London: Sold by T. Ostell; et al., 1803), by John Davis
- Travels Through the States of North America, and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, During the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797 (London: Printed for John Stockdale ... , 1799), by Isaac Weld (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels to the West of the Alleghany Mountains, in the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessea, and Back to Charleston, by the Upper Carolinas (London: Printed by D. N. Shury, for B. Crosby and Co., and J. F. Hughes 1805), by François André Michaux (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels with Samantha, by Philip Greenspun (illustrated HTML at greenspun.com)
- Un Año en el Otro Mundo (in Spanish; Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, ca. 1917), by Julio Camba
- The United States Illustrated: in Views of City and Country, ed. by Charles A. Dana (page images at MOA)
- Views of Society and Manners in America, in a Series of Letters From That Country to a Friend in England, During the Years 1818, 1819, and 1820 (second edition; London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822), by Frances Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
- Way-Side Glimpses, North and South (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1860), by Lillian Foster (page images at MOA)
- Westward by Rail: The New Route to the East, by W. Fraser Rae (page images at MOA)
- What I Saw in America (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
- A Year in the Great Republic (London: Ward & Downey, 1887), by E. Katherine Bates
- A Year of American Travel, by Jessie Benton Frémont (HTML at LOC)
- Zes Weken Tusschen de Wielen, of De Hollanders in Amerika (in Dutch; Nijmegen: P. J. Milborn, ca. 1886), by Johannes van 't Lindenhout
- Zes Weken Tusschen de Wielen, of De Hollanders in Amerika (third edition, in Dutch; Nijmegen: P. J. Milborn, ca. 1890), by Johannes van 't Lindenhout (page images at HathiTrust)
- Publications of the Norwegian-American Historical Association: Travel and Description Series (partial serial archives)
- America, and American Methodism, by Frederick James Jobson (page images at MOA)
- The American Scene (London: Chapman and Hall, 1907), by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
- As We Are and As We May Be (London: Chatto and Windus, 1903), by Walter Besant (Gutenberg text)
- 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
- The Canoe Aurora: A Cruise from the Adirondacks to the Gulf (1885), by Charles A. Neidé (illustrated HTML at thecheappages.com)
- Flying Leaves From East and West (London: Field and Tuer; et al., 1885), by Emily Pfeiffer
- Footprints of Four Centuries: The Story of the American People (Philadelphia and Chicago: International Publishing Co., 1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at Google; US access only)
- From Sea to Sea, and Other Sketches; Letters of Travel (service edition, 4 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1914), by Rudyard Kipling
- Hochelaga, or, England in the New World (London: H. Colburn, 1846), by George Warburton, ed. by Eliot Warburton
- Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States (1835), by E. S. Abdy (illustrated HTML at jmisc.net)
- Leaves of Knowledge (Spokane: Shaw and Borden Co., c1904), by Elma MacGibbon
- Letters From America, by Rupert Brooke, contrib. by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
- Letters From America, Containing Observations on the Climate and Agriculture of the Western States, the Manners of the People, the Prospects of Emigrants, &c. &c. (Edinburgh: Printed for W. and C. Tait, 1822), by James Flint (page images in Germany)
- Letters of a Traveller: or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America (1850), by William Cullen Bryant (Gutenberg text)
- The Memorial Story of America: Comprising the Important Events, Episodes, and Incidents Which Make Up the Record of Four Hundred Years From 1492 to 1892 (Philadelphia and Chicago: J. Winston and Co., 1892), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, John Heyl Vincent, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Francis Newton Thorpe, Theodore Sandford Doolittle, Albert Shaw, and Anna Laurens Dawes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social, by James F. W. Johnston (page images at MOA)
- Our Own Country: Its History and Achievements, and the Story of Our Great Men and Women (Philadelphia et al.: Monarch Book co., c1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, Francis Newton Thorpe, and Anna Laurens Dawes
- Paris in America, by Édouard Laboulaye, trans. by Mary L. Booth (page images at MOA)
- Pictures from Italy, and American Notes for General Circulation (New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1877), by Charles Dickens, contrib. by Edwin Percy Whipple
- Rachel and the New World: A Trip to the United States and Cuba, by Leon Beauvallet (page images at MOA)
- Retrospect of Western Travel (3 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), by Harriet Martineau
- Sketches of Canada and the United States (London: E. Wilson, 1833), by William Lyon Mackenzie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels Through Canada, and the United States of North America, in the Years 1806, 1807, & 1808: To Which Are Added, Biographical Notices and Anecdotes of Some of the Leading Characters in the United States (London: Printed for C. Cradock and W. Joy ...; Doig and Stirling, Edinburgh; and M. Keene, Dublin, 1813), by John Lambert
- A Friendly Mission: John Candler's Letters From America (Indiana Historical Society Publications v16 #1; 1951), by John Candler, ed. by Gayle Thornbrough (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Worlds Within Worlds (c1928), by Stella Benson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- The Amateur Emigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook (Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
- At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-Book of Life, Scenery, and Men, by Bayard Taylor (page images at MOA)
- Canada and the States: Recollections, 1851 to 1886, by E. W. Watkin
- Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., 1869), by Charles Wentworth Dilke
- Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866 and 1867 (third edition; London, Macmillan and Co., 1869), by Charles Wentworth Dilke
- Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866 and 1867 (New York: Harper and Bros., 1869), by Charles Wentworth Dilke
- Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries, With Additional Chapters on English Influence in Japan and China, and on Hong Kong and the Straits Settlements (London: Macmillan and Co., 1907), by Charles Wentworth Dilke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Home Book of the Picturesque: or, American Scenery, Art, and Literature (HTML at LOC)
- Letters from the Slave States, by James Stirling (page images at MOA)
- Memoir of the Life, Travels, and Religious Experience of Martha Routh: Written by Herself or Compiled from Her Own Narrative (York: W. Alexander and Son, et al., 1822), by Martha Winter Routh (page images at HathiTrust)
- Retour de la Nouvelle-Calédonie: De Nouméa en Europe (text attributed to Rochefort by BNF; in French; Paris: Martinon, ca. 1877), by Henri Rochefort (page images at HathiTrust)
- Roving East and Roving West, by E. V. Lucas (Gutenberg text)
- Royalty in the New World: or, The Prince of Wales in America, by Kinahan Cornwallis (page images at MOA)
- St. Louis' Isle, or Texiana; With Additional Observations Made in the United States and in Canada (London: Simmonds and Ward, 1847), by Charles Hooton (Javascript-dependent page images in Germany)
- The Uprising of a Great People: The United States in 1861; To Which is Added, A Word of Peace on the Difference Between England and the United States (new American edition from the author's revised edition, 1862), by Agénor Gasparin, trans. by Mary L. Booth (Gutenberg text)
- Voyage of the Paper Canoe: A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, From Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5, by Nathaniel H. Bishop
- Western Lands and Western Waters (London: S. O. Beeton, 1864), by Friedrich Gerstäcker (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Winter From Home, by Charles A. Clinton (page images at MOA)
- Wool-Gathering (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867), by Gail Hamilton
- Narrative of William Hayden, Containing a Faithful Account of His Travels for a Number of Years, Whilst a Slave, in the South (Cincinnati: W. Hayden, 1846), by William Hayden (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sailing on the Great Lakes and Rivers of America, by John Disturnell (page images at MOA)
- Three Visits to America (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., c1884), by Emily Faithfull (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Three Visits to America (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., ca. 1884), by Emily Faithfull (illustrated HTML in the UK)
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