Discovery and exploration
Use as a topical subdivision under names of countries, cities, etc.
See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.
Narrower terms:- Africa -- Discovery and exploration
- Africa, Central -- Discovery and exploration
- America -- Discovery and exploration
- Angola -- Discovery and exploration
- Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration
- Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration
- Arizona -- Discovery and exploration
- Arnhem Land (N.T.) -- Discovery and exploration
- Asia -- Discovery and exploration
- Atlantic Ocean -- Discovery and exploration
- Australia -- Discovery and exploration
- Brazil -- Discovery and exploration
- British Columbia -- Discovery and exploration
- California -- Discovery and exploration
- Canada -- Discovery and exploration
- Canada, Northern -- Discovery and exploration
- Canary Islands -- Discovery and exploration
- Caribbean Area -- Discovery and exploration
- Central Australia -- Discovery and exploration
- Central Valley (Calif.) -- Discovery and exploration
- Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- Discovery and exploration
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Discovery and exploration
- Florida -- Discovery and exploration
- Four Corners Region -- Discovery and exploration
- Georgia -- Discovery and exploration
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Discovery and exploration
- Great Basin -- Discovery and exploration
- Great Lakes (North America) -- Discovery and exploration
- Guiana -- Discovery and exploration
- Haida Gwaii (B.C.) -- Discovery and exploration
- Hiva Oa (French Polynesia) -- Discovery and exploration
- Ice caps -- Greenland -- Discovery and exploration
- Islands of the Pacific -- Discovery and exploration
- Labrador (N.L.) -- Discovery and exploration
- Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- Discovery and exploration
- Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
- Mississippi River Valley -- Discovery and exploration
- New France -- Discovery and exploration
- New Mexico -- Discovery and exploration
- New South Wales -- Discovery and exploration
- Nile River Valley -- Discovery and exploration
- North America -- Discovery and exploration
- North Pole -- Discovery and exploration
- Northeast Passage -- Discovery and exploration
- Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration
- Northwest Territories -- Discovery and exploration
- Northwest, Canadian -- Discovery and exploration
- Northwest, Old -- Discovery and exploration
- Northwest, Pacific -- Discovery and exploration
- Oceania -- Discovery and exploration
- Pacific Area -- Discovery and exploration
- Pacific Ocean -- Discovery and exploration
- Philippines -- Discovery and exploration
- Polar regions -- Discovery and exploration
- Queensland -- Discovery and exploration
- San Joaquin Valley (Calif.) -- Discovery and exploration
- Shark Bay (W.A.) -- Discovery and exploration
- South America -- Discovery and exploration
- South Australia -- Discovery and exploration
- South Pole -- Discovery and exploration
- Southern States -- Discovery and exploration
- Southwest, New -- Discovery and exploration
- Southwestern States -- Discovery and exploration
- Texas -- Discovery and exploration
- United States -- Discovery and exploration
- Utah -- Discovery and exploration
- West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration
- West Indies -- Discovery and exploration
- Western Australia -- Discovery and exploration
- Exploration and discovery
- Exploring expeditions
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Heroes of the Dark Continent, by James W. Buel (illustrated HTML with commentary at erbzine.com)- The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805, Together With Other Documents, Official And Private, Relating To The Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park, by Mungo Park, ed. by J. Whishaw (Gutenberg text)
- Life and Travels of Mungo Park, With a Full Narrative of Subsequent Adventure in Central Africa (Thomas Nelson edition (Edinburgh), mid-1800s), by Mungo Park, ed. by Andrew R. Bonar (Gutenberg text)
- Negroland, or, Light Thrown Upon The Dark Continent: The History of African Exploration and Adventure as Given in the Leading Authorities From Herodotus to the Latest Explorers, Including Livingston, Speke, Baker, Stanley, Johnston, and Others (New York: Hurst and Co., c1881), by Charles H. Jones and H. L. Williams
- Travels in the Interior of Africa (Cassell edition, late 1800s; omits some material in original 1799 edition), by Mungo Park, ed. by Henry Morley
- 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)
- 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 (second edition; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1877), by Richard Henry Major (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ostafrikanische Studien (in French; Schaffhausen: F. Hurter, 1864), by Werner Munzinger
- A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, and of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864, by David Livingstone (Gutenberg text)
- As Duas Americas (second edition, in Portuguese; Lisbon: J. Bastos, 1900), by Candido Costa, illust. by António Ramalho
- 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
- 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)
- A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of Europeans in the East and West Indies (8 volumes; London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1788), by abbé Raynal, trans. by J. O. Justamond (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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
- The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1901), by Andrew Battell, ed. by Ernest Georg Ravenstein, contrib. by Samuel Purchas and Anthony Knivet (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Argonauts of the South: Being a Narrative of Voyagings and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic With Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1925), by Frank Hurley
- The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909 (2 volumes; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1909), by Ernest Henry Shackleton, contrib. by Hugh Robert Mill and T. W. Edgeworth David
- South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-17, by Ernest Henry Shackleton (Gutenberg text)
- The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club (originally published 1910; reprinted New York: Greenwood Press, 1968), by Robert E. Peary, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt and Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Arctic Exploration; With an Account of Nicholas of Lynn (with "Inventio Fortunata" at head of title page; reprinted from the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, 1881), by B. F. DeCosta
- Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century (New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton and Co., 1857), ed. by Samuel M. Smucker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Arctic Explorations and Discoveries During the Nineteenth Century (New York: C. M. Saxton, 1858), ed. by Samuel M. Smucker (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Cruise of the Corwin, by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Yosemite Web)
- Description of Messrs. Marshall's Grand Peristrephic Panorama of the Polar Regions, Which Displays the North Coast of Spitzbergen, Baffin's Bay, Arctic Highlands, &c., Now Exhibiting in the Masonic Hall, York Street, Bath (Shrewsbury: Printed by W. Eddowes, 1822)
- Life With the Esquimaux: A Narrative of Arctic Experience in Search of Survivors of Sir John Franklin's Expedition (popular edition, with maps; London: S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1865), by Charles Francis Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life With the Esquimaux: The Narrative of Captain Charles Francis Hall, of the Whaling Barque "George Henry", From the 29th May, 1860, to the 13th September, 1862 (London: S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1864), by Charles Francis Hall
- Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions, Or, The Adventures of Sir John Franklin (New York: G. Cooper, 1859), by John Franklin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (2 volumes; London: W. Heinemann, 1911), by Fridtjof Nansen, trans. by Arthur G. Chater
- Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835 (Paris: A and W. Calignani, 1836), by George Back and John Richardson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin: A Personal Narrative (new edition; Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856), by Elisha Kent Kane (page images at MOA)
- Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, by Elisha Kent Kane (page images at MOA)
- A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1912), by Matthew Alexander Henson, contrib. by Robert E. Peary and Booker T. Washington
- The First Discovered City of Cibola (reprinted from The American Anthropologist; Washington: Judd and Detweiler, printers, 1895), by Frederick Webb Hodge
- Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition (2011), ed. by Martin Thomas and Margo Neale (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)
- 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
- Macassan History and Heritage: Journeys, Encounters and Influences (c2013), ed. by Marshall Alexander Clark and Sally K. May
- Australian Discovery (1929), by Ernest Scott (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
- Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration: Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions Into and Through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, From 1872 to 1876, by Ernest Giles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Early Australian Voyages, by John Pinkerton (Gutenberg text)
- Early Explorers in Australia, From the Log-Books and Journals, by Ida Lee (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
- Explorations in Australia (1875), by John Forrest (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Explorations in Australia: The Journals of John McDouall Stuart During the Years 1858, 1859, 1861 & 1862, When He Fixed the Centre of the Continent and Successfully Crossed it From Sea to Sea (second edition, 1865), by John McDouall Stuart, ed. by William Hardman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Explorers of Australia, and Their Life-Work (1908), by Ernest Favenc
- The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 (Sydney: Turner and Henderson, 1888), by Ernest Favenc
- Journals of Australian Explorations (Brisbane: J. Beal, 1884), by Augustus Charles Gregory and Francis Thomas Gregory (Gutenberg text)
- 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)
- The Naval Pioneers of Australia (London: J. Murray, 1899), by Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Our Australian Cousins (London: Macmillan, 1880), by James Inglis (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Romance of Australian Exploring (Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1910), by G. Firth Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Three Expeditions in the Interior of Eastern Australia, With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix and of the Present Colony of New South Wales (London: T. and W. Boone, 1839), by T. L. Mitchell (HTML at PDF at University of Sydney)
- A Voyage to Terra Australis (2 volumes, 1814), by Matthew Flinders
- 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
- The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R. N., by Ernest Scott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Logbooks of the "Lady Nelson," With the Journal of Her First Commander Lieutenant James Grant, by Ida Lee (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia, From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, by William John Wills, ed. by William Wills (Gutenberg text)
- Terre Napoleon: A History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia (second edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1911), by Ernest Scott
- Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland From Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1, by Edward John Eyre (Gutenberg text)
More items available under narrower terms.