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

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• 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 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 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

• 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)

• Diving for Pleasure and Treasure (Cleveland and New York: World Pub. Co., c1960), by Clay Blair, illust. by Walter Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Battles with the Sea: or, Heroes of the Lifeboat and Rocket, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• 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)
• Narrative of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of Miss Ann Saunders (Providence, RI: Printed for Z.S. Crossmon, 1827), by Ann Saunders (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Narrative of the Hon. John Byron: Being an Account of the Shipwreck of the Wager, and the Subsequent Adventures of Her Crew; To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author (Cabinet Library v14; Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne and Co., 1812), by John Byron
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Narrative of the Wreck of the "Favorite" on the Island of Desolation: Detailing the Adventures, Sufferings, and Privations of John Nunn; An Historical Account of the Island, and its Whale and Seal Fisheries (London: W. E. Painter, 1850), by John Nunn, ed. by W. B. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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