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• Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America (London: T. De La Rue and Co., 1880), by Richard Hakluyt, ed. by Edward John Payne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier, Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Bucaniers (New York: Harper and Bros., 1864), by C. I. Johnstone
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• A Discourse Concerning Western Planting: Written in the Year 1584 by Richard Hakluyt, Now First Printed from a Contemporary Manuscript (Cambridge, MA: J. Wilson and Son, 1877), by Richard Hakluyt, ed. by Charles Deane, contrib. by Leonard Woods
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)

• Farther Observations on the Discovery of America By Prince Madog Ab Owen Gwynedd, About the Year 1170: Containing the Account Given By General Bowles, the Creek or Cherokee Indian, Lately in London, and By Several Others, of a Welsh Tribe or Tribes of Indians, Now Living in the Western Parts of North America (London: Printed by J. Brown, 1792), by John Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)
• John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America and Sebastian, His Son: A Chapter of the Maritime History of England Under the Tudors, 1496-1557 (London: Stevens, 1896), by Henry Harrisse (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• As Duas Americas (second edition, in Portuguese; Lisbon: J. Bastos, 1900), by Candido Costa, illust. by António Ramalho
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1), by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Edward Potts Cheyney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Men Who Found America, by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson, illust. by E. Roscoe Shrader and Herbert Moore (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery, by Filson Young (Gutenberg text)
• Los Caballeros del Dorado (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. Clasical Espanola, 1915), by Ciro Bayo (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Old Europe and Young America (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, c1922), by William H. Mace and Edwin P. Tanner, illust. by Homer Wayland Colby, B. F. Williamson, and Frank T. Merrill (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
• The Ranks of Death: A Medical History of the Conquest of America (New York: Coward-McCann, c1947), by P. M. Ashburn and Frank Davis Ashburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Discovery of America By Christopher Columbus, and the Origin of the North American Indians (1836), by John McIntosh (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of Hernando de Soto and Florida: or, Record of the Events of Fifty-Six years, from 1512 to 1568 (3 volumes in 1, including Vega's History of the Conquest of Florida; Philadelphia: Collins, 1881), by Barnard Shipp, contrib. by Garcilaso de la Vega (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (12 volumes; London: Printed for Cadell and Davies et al., 1817), by William Robertson, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (multiple formats at Google)
• The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (8 volumes; Oxford: Printed for W. Pickering, and Talboys and Wheeler, 1825), by William Robertson
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8: multiple formats at archive.org

• Pale Ink: Two Ancient Records of Chinese Exploration in America (Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1953), by Henriette Mertz (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Fusang: or, The Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century (New York: J. W. Bouton, 1875), by Charles Godfrey Leland (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Notices of Fu-Sang, and Other Countries Lying East of China, in the Pacific Ocean (1881), by S. Wells Williams, contrib. by Ma Duanlin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• De Antichristo (13 books in 2 volumes, in Latin; Lyon: Sumptibus Societas Bibliopolarum, 1647), by Tomás Maluenda
  • Tomus Primus (Liber I-VI): page images at HathiTrust
  • Tomus Secundus (Liber VII-XIII): page images at HathiTrust
• Hakluytus Posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes (4 volumes; London: Imprinted for H. Fetherston, 1625), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Purchas His Pilgrimage (London: Printed by W. Stansby for H. Fetherstone, 1626), by Samuel Purchas (page images at LOC)
• Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent (1850 edition), by Richard Hakluyt and John Winter Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Journal of Christopher Columbus (During His First Voyage, 1492-93), and Documents Relating the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1893), by Christopher Columbus, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Old Captivity (c1940), by Nevil Shute
  • HTML at Gutenberg Canada
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 1492, by Mary Johnston
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Mercedes of Castile (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at MOA)
• The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days, by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz (Gutenberg text)
• The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Padraic Colum, illust. by Wilfred Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Voyage of Verrazzano: A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America, by Henry Cruse Murphy (Gutenberg text)
• The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1914), by Stephen Leacock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1915), by Stephen Leacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, by Samuel de Champlain, trans. by Charles Pomeroy Otis, contrib. by Edmund F. Slafter
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
  • volume III: Gutenberg text

• The Ruins of Great Ireland in New England (Boston: Meador Pub. Co., c1946), by William B. Goodwin, contrib. by Malcolm D. Pearson, illust. by Vincent T. Fagan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Buckskin Brigade (c1947), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• America's Story, for America's Children (5 volumes; Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1900-1901), by Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick
  • Volume I (The Beginner's Book): multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume I (The Beginner's Book): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II (Exploration and Discovery, A.D. 1000 to 1609): multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume III (The Early Colonies) multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume III (The Early Colonies) multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (The Later Colonial Period): multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume IV (The Later Colonial Period): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (The Foundations of the Republic): multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume V (The Foundations of the Republic): multiple formats at archive.org

• Extracts from the Sagas Describing the Voyages to Vinland (American history leaflets constitutional and colonial #3; New York: A. Lovell and Co., 1892), ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Edward Channing, trans. by Arthur Middleton Reeves
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Flatey Book and Recently Discovered Vatican Manuscripts, Concerning America as Early as the Tenth Century (London: Norraena Society, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Norse Discovery of America (1906), by Arthur Middleton Reeves, North Ludlow Beamish, and Rasmus B. Anderson (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen, With Translations from the Icelandic Sagas (second edition; Albany, NY: J. Munsell's Sons, 1890), by B. F. DeCosta (multiple formats at archive.org)
• In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (2 volumes; London: W. Heinemann, 1911), by Fridtjof Nansen, trans. by Arthur G. Chater
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Did the Phoenicians Discover America? Embracing the Origin of the Aztecs, With Some Further Light on Phoenician Civilization and Colonization; The Origin of the Mariner's Compass; The Original Discovery of America (Geographical Society of California special bulletin, c1892), by Thomas Crawford Johnston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• As Duas Americas (second edition, in Portuguese; Lisbon: J. Bastos, 1900), by Candido Costa, illust. by António Ramalho
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• O Descobridor do Brazil: Pedro Alvares Cabral (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Academia Real das Sciencias, 1897), by Visconde de Sanches de Baena (PDF files at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
• The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1894), ed. by Clements R. Markham, contrib. by Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Martín Fernández de Navarrete (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career (reprint of the Hakluyt Society publication; New York: Burt Franklin, n.d.), ed. by Clements R. Markham, contrib. by Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Martín Fernández de Navarrete (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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