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• The Kangaroo Hunters, or, Adventures in the Bush (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1859), by Anne Bowman (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (1788; published 1978), by George B. Worgan (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Reaching for the Top in the Land Down Under (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c2001), ed. by Marc Maurer (illustrated HTML at nfb.org)
• The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury, 1875 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Anthony Trollope, ed. by Bradford Allen Booth (HTML at UC Press)
• Account of a Voyage Around the World (in English and Welsh; Caernarvon, Wales: H. Humphreys, 1856), by J. Roberts, trans. by John Bear (HTML in Australia)
• Australian Sketches (Second Series), by Thomas McCombie (page images in Germany)
• Fought and Won (Adelaide: W. K. Thomas and Co., 1922), by John Lewis, contrib. by Ernest Whitington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, From Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a Distance of Upwards of 3000 Miles, During the Years 1844-1845 (London: T. amp; W. Boone, 1847), by Ludwig Leichhardt
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images in Germany
• Lonely Lands: Through the Heart of Australia (Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., 1909), by Francis Birtles
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• My Experiences in Australia: Being Recollections of a Visit to the Australian Colonies in 1856-7, by a Lady (London: J. F. Hope, 1860), by Emma Macpherson (page images at Google)
• On the Wallaby: or, Through the East and Across Australia (London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1894), by Guy Boothby, illust. by Ben Boothby
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands: Being the Adventures of James F. O'Connell, Edited From His Verbal Narration (Boston: B. B. Mussey, 1836), by James F. O'Connell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of the Colonies: or, The Adventures of an Emigrant, by Charles Rowcroft (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
• The Wanderings of a Spiritualist (London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1921), by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• What We Saw in Australia (1875), by Rosamond Davenport Hill and Florence Davenport Hill (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Boy's Voyage Round the World (London: J. Murray, 1905), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Explorations in Australia (1875), by John Forrest (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hard Life in the Colonies, and Other Experiences by Sea and Land, Now First Printed, Compiled From Private Letters (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), ed. by Catherine Carlyon Jenkyns, contrib. by Arthur Cardew Jenkins, Gilbert Chilcott Jenkins, and Haln Killegrew Dunbar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53, Written on the Spot, by Mrs. Charles Clacy
  • HTML and PDF at University of Sydney
  • 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)
• Our Australian Cousins (London: Macmillan, 1880), by James Inglis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Physical Configuration of the Australian Continent (Sydney and Brisbane: W. Brooks and Co., 1905), by Ernest Favenc (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Far Off: or, Asia and Australia Described, With Anecdotes and Illustrations, by Favell Lee Mortimer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, During a Residence in That Colony From 1839 to 1844 (London: John Murray, 1844), by Mrs. Charles Meredith
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Gold Colonies of Australia (London: G. Routledge and Co., 1852), by George Butler Earp (multiple formats at Google)
• A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the Year 1813, by Gregory Blaxland (illustrated HTML in Australia)

• A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay, by Watkin Tench
  • HTML and PDF at University of Sydney
  • Gutenberg text

• We of the Never-Never, by Jeannie Gunn (Gutenberg text)

• Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland, by Frank Lascelles Jardine and Alexander Jardine, ed. by Frederick J. Byerley (Gutenberg text)

• Last Leaves From Dunk Island, by E. J. Banfield (text at Gutenberg Australia)

• Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia, Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together with a Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847, by Charles Sturt (Gutenberg text)
• River Rovers (Melbourne et al.: G. Robertson and Co., ca. 1911), by E. J. Brady (multiple formats at archive.org)

• My Home in Tasmania, During a Residence of Nine Years (2 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1852), by Mrs. Charles Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Residence in Tasmania, With a Descriptive Tour Through the Island, From Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1856), by H. Butler Stoney (page images in Germany)
• Tales of the Colonies: or, The Adventures of an Emigrant, by Charles Rowcroft (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
• The Journal of Mrs. Fenton: A Narrative of Her Life in India, the Isle of France (Mauritius) and Tasmania During the Years 1826-1830 (London: Edward Arnold, 1901), by Elizabeth Sinclair Fenton (page images at Google; US access only)

• Old Melbourne Memories (second edition, revised; London and New York: Macmillan, 1896), by Rolf Boldrewood
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Over the Straits: A Visit to Victoria (London: Chapman and Hall, 1861), by Mrs. Charles Meredith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria, by William Westgarth (Gutenberg text)
• Victoria As I Found It, During Five Years of Adventure (London: T. C. Newby, 1862), by Henry Brown (multiple formats at Google)
• On the Wallaby Through Victoria (published as by E. M. Clowes; London: W. Heinemann, 1911), by Elinor Mordaunt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Gold Colonies of Australia (London: G. Routledge and Co., 1852), by George Butler Earp (multiple formats at Google)

• The Bushman: or, Life in a New Country, by Edward Wilson Landor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Spinifex and Sand: A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia, by David Wynford Carnegie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Adventures in Australia, by William Henry Giles Kingston
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • PDF and other formats at archive.org
• A Final Reckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• In a New World: or, Among the Gold Fields of Australia, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text)
• Twice Lost, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• First in the Field: A Story of New South Wales, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by W. Rainey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Lost Child (London and New York: Macmillan and Co;, 1871), by Henry Kingsley, illust. by Lorenz Frølich (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Marooned on Australia: Being the Narration by Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits in Terra Australis Incognita About the Year 1630 (London et al.: Blackie and Son, ca. 1896), by Ernest Favenc, illust. by Percy F. S. Spence (page images at HathiTrust)

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