Discoveries in geography
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Broader term:Related terms:Narrower terms:- Discoveries in geography -- American
- Discoveries in geography -- Chinese
- Discoveries in geography -- Dutch
- Discoveries in geography -- Early works to 1800
- Discoveries in geography -- English
- Discoveries in geography -- Fiction
- Discoveries in geography -- Juvenile fiction
- Discoveries in geography -- Portuguese
- Discoveries in geography -- Scandinavian
- Northeast Passage
- Northwest Passage
- Discoveries, Maritime
- Exploration and discovery
- Explorations in geography
- Exploring expeditions
- Geographical discoveries
- Geographical discovery
- Maritime discoveries
- Exploration
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Background to Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier to Cook (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), ed. by Derek Howse (HTML at UC Press)- The Last Secrets: The Final Mysteries of Exploration (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1923), by John Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition Made by Charles F. Hall: His Voyage to Repulse Bay, Sledge Journeys to the Straits of Fury and Hecla and to King William's Land, and Residence Among the Eskimos, During the Years 1864-'69 (Washington: GPO, 1879), by Charles Francis Hall, ed. by J. E. Nourse (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mediaeval Researches From Eastern Asiatic Sources: Fragments Towards the Knowledge of the Geography and History of Central and Western Asia From the 13th to the 17th Century (2 volumes; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1910), by E. Bretschneider
- Journael van de Reis Naar Zuid-Amerika (1598-1601) (in Dutch; 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1918), by Hendrick Ottsen, contrib. by J. W. Ijzerman
- A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap
- A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784), by James Cook and James King
- The Worldes Hydrographical Discription (1595), by John Davis
- A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784), by James Cook and James King
- 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 Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in His Intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea (London: Printed for John Legatt, 1633), by Thomas James (page images in Germany)
- A Collection of Voyages and Travels, in Three Parts (London: O. Payne, 1741), by Thomas James, Jean-Bernard-Louis Desjean Pointis, and Daniel Coxe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in His Intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea (London: Printed for John Legatt, 1633), by Thomas James (page images in Germany)
- A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World (London: Printed for A. Hogg, ca. 1786), ed. by George William Anderson (page images with commentary at wdl.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
- The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (3 volumes; London: Imprinted by G. Bishop, R. Newberie and R. Barker, 1598-1600), ed. by Richard Hakluyt (page images at LOC)
- The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (16 volumes; Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid, 1885-1890), ed. by Richard Hakluyt and Edmund Goldsmid (page images at archive.org; and Gutenberg text)
- The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation Made by Sea or Over-Land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeeres (12 volumes; Glasgow: J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903-1905), ed. by Richard Hakluyt
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IX: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XI: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XII: multiple formats at archive.org
- The Principall Nauigations, Voiages, and Discoueries of the English Nation (London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, 1589), ed. by Richard Hakluyt (page images at LOC)
- 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)
- The Voyagers: Being Legends and Romances of Atlantic Discovery (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Padraic Colum, illust. by Wilfred Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- With Sword and Crucifix: Being an Account of the Strange Adventures of Count Louis de Sancerre, Companion of Sieur de La Salle, on the Lower Mississippi in the Year of Grace 1682 (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1900), by Edward S. Van Zile
- An Old Captivity (c1940), by Nevil Shute
- 1492, by Mary Johnston
- The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days, by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz (Gutenberg text)
- South of the Sunset: An Interpretation of Sacajawea, the Indian Girl That Accompanied Lewis and Clark (New York: R. R. Wilson, 1936), by Claire Warner Churchill, illust. by Agnes C. Lehman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Magnificent Adventure: Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Rezánov, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, contrib. by William Marion Reedy (Gutenberg text)
- The Vinland Champions (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1904), by Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, illust. by Margaret West Kinney and Troy Kinney (page images at HathiTrust)
- How Sing Found the World is Round (Chicago: P. F. Volland, c1921), by Sydney Reid, illust. by Katharine Sturges
- The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator, and Their Results: Being the Narrative of the Discovery by Sea, Within One Century, of More Than Half the World (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1877), by Richard Henry Major (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
- The North-West Passage, 1940-1942 and 1944: The Famous Voyages of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Schooner "St. Roch" (originally published 1948; this edition 1969), by Henry A. Larsen (illustrated HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- A Concise Account of Voyages, for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, Undertaken for Finding a New Way to the East-Indies (London: Printed for the Proprietor, 1782), by Richard Pickersgill (page images in Germany)
- Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1858), by William Edward Parry
- The Life of Sir John Franklin, R.N. (London: J. Murray, 1896), by H. D. Traill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage (London: Cassell and Co., 1892), by Richard Hakluyt (Gutenberg text)
- Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, by Elisha Kent Kane (page images at MOA)
- A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in Quest of a North-West passage Between Asia & America, Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779 (Hartford: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, 1783), by John Ledyard (page images at LOC)
- An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-West Part of America (London: Printed for J. Robinson, 1744), by Arthur Dobbs, contrib. by Christopher Middleton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Arctic Dawn: The Journeys of Samuel Hearne, by Samuel Hearne, ed. by Rod Davidek (HTML at archive.org)
- A Journey From Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean: Undertaken By Order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c. in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 (London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell ... , 1795), by Samuel Hearne (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22 (third edition; London: J. Murray, 1824), by John Franklin and John Richardson
- Plan for Promoting the Fur Trade, and Securing It to This Country, By Uniting the Operations of the East-India and Hudson's-Bay Companys (1789), by Alexander Dalrymple (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, From China to the North West Coast of America (London: Printed at the Logographc Press and sold by J. Walter, 1790), by John Meares (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies, With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies During the Seventeenth Century, Preserved in the India Office; and the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to Seek the North-West Passage (London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1877), ed. by Clements R. Markham
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