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Disappeared persons

Here are entered works on persons who have disappeared and are presumed to have been illegally imprisoned or killed for political reasons. Works on persons who are absent without explanation from their homes or usual whereabouts are entered under Missing persons.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Missing persons
• Victims of state-sponsored terrorism

• Disappeared persons -- Case studies
• Disappeared persons -- Legal status, laws, etc.
• Disappeared persons -- Libya
• Disappeared persons -- Mexico
• Disappeared persons -- Ukraine

• Desaparecidos
• Enforced disappearance

• Book of the Disappeared: The Quest for Transnational Justice (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Book of the Disappeared: The Quest for Transnational Justice (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Book of the Disappeared: The Quest for Transnational Justice (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Battle for Libya: Killings, Disappearances and Torture (2011), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Systemic Injustice: Torture, "Disappearance," and Extrajudicial Execution in Mexico, by Joel Solomon (HTML at hrw.org)

• Rights in Retreat: Abuses in Crimea (in English, Russian, and Ukrainian; New York: Human Rights Watch, c2014), by Yulia Gorbunova (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Death in the Sand: The Unsolved Disappearance of James Annetts and Simon Amos (c2014), by Norm Barber
  • HTML with commentary at weebly.com
  • multiple formats at smashwords.com

• Highways in Hiding (c1956), by George O. Smith (Gutenberg text)
• The Boomerang (second edition; New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1915), by William Hamilton Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Case of Jennie Brice (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1913), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by M. Leone Bracker (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wylder's Hand, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Gutenberg text)
• King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Kuningas Salomon Kaivokset (King Solomon's Mines in Finnish; Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, 1908), by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
• The Complete Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens: The History, Continuations and Solutions (1870-1912) (Boston: D. Estes and Co., 1913), by Charles Dickens and John Cuming Walters, illust. by Luke Fildes and Frederic George Kitton
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens, Completed in 1914 by W. E. C. (London: J. M. Ouseley and Son, ca. 1914), by Charles Dickens and Walter E. Crisp, ed. by Mary L. C. Grant, illust. by Zoffany Oldfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Master of Ballantrae, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • Gutenberg text
• Veljekset (The Master of Ballantrae in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1921), by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)

• The Blue Lagoon, by H. De Vere Stacpoole (Gutenberg text)
• The Blue Lagoon (Adelphi Library #13; London: T. F. Unwin, 1908), by H. De Vere Stacpoole
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, trans. by William Henry Giles Kingston
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML in Israel
• The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, trans. by Sidney Kravitz, illust. by Jules-Descartes Ferat (HTML in Israel)
• The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, trans. by Stephen W. White (Gutenberg HTML)
• The Mysterious Island: A Sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (translator uncredited; Boston: "Household Words" Pub. Co., 1876), by Jules Verne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Secret of the Island, by Jules Verne, trans. by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• When the World Shook, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
• Bywyd ac Anturiaethau Rhyfeddol Robinson Crusoe: Yr Hwn A Fu Byw Wyth Mlynedd Ar Hugain Mewn Ynys Anghyfanedd, Wedi Ei Fwrw Yno Pan Dorodd Y Llong Arno. Hefyd, Ei Ail-ymweliad A'r Ynys Hono, A'i Deithiau Peryglus Mewn Amryw Barthau Ereill O'r Byd (Robinson Crusue translated into Welsh; Caernarfon: H. Humphreys, n.d.), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Men Against the Sea (c1933), by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (text and illustrated HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (in French; 1868), by Jules Verne
  • Gutenberg text
  • unabridged amateur English translation by Don Sample: PDF files with commentary at forgottenfutures.com
• Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (New York: T. Y. Crowell and Co., ca. 1895), by Daniel Defoe, illust. by George Housman Thomas, W. J. Linton, and William Luson Thomas (page images at Florida)
• The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (New York et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, n.d.), by Daniel Defoe, illust. by John Dawson Watson (page images in Florida)
• The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (based on an 1801 edition), by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (London: W. Taylor, 1719; with added commentary), by Daniel Defoe (frame-dependent HTML at pierre-marteau.com)
• The Life And Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight And Twenty Years All Alone In an Un-inhabited Island on The Coast Of America, Near The Mouth of The Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore By Shipwreck, Wherein All The Men Perished But Himself. With an Account How He Was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates; Written by Himself (fourth edition; London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1719), by Daniel Defoe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rebilius Cruso: Robinson Crusoe, in Latin (text ("only the general idea") in Latin, commentary in English; London: Trübner and Co., 1884), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by F. W. Newman
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text)
• Robinson Crusoe (Philadelphia: D. McKay Co., ca. 1920), by Daniel Defoe, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Robinson Crusoe (in Finnish), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by Samuli Suomalainen (Gutenberg text)
• Serious Reflections During The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of The Angelick World (London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1720), by Daniel Defoe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; With His Vision of the Angelic World (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1899), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by George Atherton Aitken, illust. by Jack B. Yeats (page images at Google)
• Vie et Aventures de Robinson Crusoe (2 volumes in French; 1836), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by Pétrus Borel
  • Book 1: Gutenberg text
  • Book 2: Gutenberg text
• A Voyage Round the World (translation of Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant; 3 volumes; London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1876-), by Jules Verne, illust. by Edouard Riou
  • Volume 1 (South America): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2 (Australia): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 3 (New Zealand): multiple formats at archive.org

• Chita: A Memory of Last Island, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• The Monster, and Other Stories (3-story collection; New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by Stephen Crane
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Monster, and Other Stories, by Stephen Crane (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer (Philadelphia: H. Altemus Co., c1917), by Jessie Graham Flower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Mystery at Number Six (New York: The Century Co., 1922), by Augusta Huiell Seaman, illust. by W. P. Couse (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Hurricane Mystery (New York: Random House, c1943), by Sarah Lindsay Schmidt (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Missing at Marshlands (Arden Blake Mystery Series #3; New York and Chicago: A. L. Burt Co, c1934), by Cleo F. Garis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Missing Chums (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Franklin W. Dixon, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Orchard Secret (Arden Blake Mystery Series #1; New York and Chicago: A. L. Burt Co, c1934), by Cleo F. Garis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Lost King of Oz (Chicago: Reilly and Lee Co., c1925), by Ruth Plumly Thompson, illust. by John R. Neill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.