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• Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile fiction
• Discovery and exploration -- Norse -- Juvenile fiction
• Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile fiction

• The dog Crusoe and his master (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1868), by R. M. Ballantyne, William John Alais, and Thomas Nelson & Sons (page images at Florida)
• The ship of ice (London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1875), by S. Whitchurch Sadler and Marcus Ward & Co (page images at Florida)
• The dog Crusoe and his master (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by R. M. Ballantyne (page images at Florida)

• Buckskin Brigade (c1947), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Coming of the White Men: Stories of How Our Country Was Discovered, by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, illust. by Sears Gallagher (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Norsemen in the West: or, America Before Columbus, by R. M. Ballantyne (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)

• Diego Pinzon and the Fearful Voyage He Took Into the Unknown Ocean A.D. 1492, by John Russell Coryell (Gutenberg ebook)

• Don Sturdy Across the North Pole: or, Cast Away in the Land of Ice (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1925), by Victor Appleton, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First at the North Pole: or, Two Boys in the Arctic Circle (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1909), by Edward Stratemeyer, illust. by Charles Nuttall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• In the Land of the Great Snow Bear: A Tale of Love and Heroism, by Gordon Stables, illust. by Gordon Browne (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)

• The Norsemen in the West, or, America before Columbus (New York: T. Nelson & Sons, 1872), by R. M. Ballantyne, illust. by G Pearson (page images at Florida)
• The Norsemen in the West, or, America before Columbus (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1872), by R. M. Ballantyne (page images at Florida)

• Strange Stories of the Great River: The Adventures of a Boy Explorer (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1918), by Abbie Johnston Grosvenor
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• Strange Stories of the Great River: The Adventures of a Boy Explorer, by Abbie Johnston Grosvenor, illust. by Walt Louderback (Gutenberg ebook)

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• A catechism of the history of America (London: Printed for G. & W. B. Whittaker, 13, Ave-Maria-lane, n.d.), by William Pinnock, Richard Gilbert, and G. and W.B. Whittaker (page images at Florida)
• Columbus, or, The discovery of America (Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1820), by Joachim Heinrich Campe, Elizabeth Helme, Charles Stephen Francis, Munroe & Francis, and Pendleton's Lithography (page images at Florida)
• Tales about America and Australia (London: Darton and Clark, 1854), by Samuel G. Goodrich, T. Wilson, J. O Clarke, John Leighton, and Darton & Clark (page images at Florida)
• The story of exploration and adventure in Africa (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1896), by Prescott Holmes (page images at Florida)
• The Story of Columbus (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1893), by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye and Appleton Press (page images at Florida)
• Tales about America and Australia (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1868), by Samuel G. Goodrich, T. Wilson, Petter & Galpin Cassell, Petter and Galpin, and Belle Sauvage Works (page images at Florida)
• The story of exploration and adventure in the frozen seas (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1896), by Prescott Holmes (page images at Florida)
• Captain Cook's three voyages round the world (London et al.: George Routledge and Sons, 1895), ed. by Charles Rathbone Low (page images at Florida)
• The story of Magellan (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899), by Hezekiah Butterworth, illust. by Frank T Merrill (page images at Florida)

• Scientific results of the United States Arctic Expedition, steamer Polaris, C.F. Hall commanding : vol. 1.: physical observations / (Washington : G.P.O., 1876), by Emil Bessels and United States. Navy Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of a court of inquiry convened at the Navy Department, Washington D.C., October 5, 1885, in pursuance of a joint resolution of Congress approved August 8, 1882 to investigate the circumstances of the loss in the Arctic seas of the exploring steamer "Jeannette," etc. (Washington : G.P.O., 1883), by United States. Navy. Court of Inquiry (Jeannette (Ship) : 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the North Polar expedition : U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall commanding /, by United States Navy Department, H. H. Nichols, Richard W. D. Bryan, Hubbard C. Chester, George E. Tyson, and Charles Francis Hall, ed. by Charles Henry Davis, illust. by Henry J. Morgan, T. W. Smillie, Emil Schumann, and Emil Bessels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assault on eternity : Richard E. Byrd and the exploration of Antarctica, 1946-47 / (Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, ©1980), by Lisle A. Rose and Richard R. Conger, contrib. by Naval Institute Press (page images at HathiTrust)

• Supplement to Captain Sir John Ross's narrative of a second voyage in the Victory in search of a north-west passage : containing the suppressed facts necessary to a proper understanding of the causes of the failure of the steam machinery of the Victory, and a just appreciation of Captain Sir John Ross's character as an officer and a man of science / (London : Chapman and Hall, 1835), by John Braithwaite (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial volume of the Popham celebration, August 29, 1862: commemorative of the planting of the Popham colony on the peninsula of Sabino, August 19, o.s., 1607, establishing the title of England to the continent. (Portland, [Me.] : Bailey & Noyes, 1863), by Edward Ballard and Maine Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages of the Elizabethan seamen. Select narratives from the ʻPrincipal navigationsʼ of Hakluyt, (Oxford, Clarendon press, 1907), by Richard Hakluyt and C. Raymond Beazley, ed. by Edward John Payne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Voyages of the English nation to America. (Edinburg, E. & G. Goldsmid, 1889-90), by Richard Hakluyt and Edmund Goldsmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• 21 Meilen vom Südpol : die Geschichte der britischen Südpol-Expedition, 1907/09 / (Berlin : Wilhelm Süsserott, [1911?]), by Ernest Henry Shackleton, Martin L. Greene, Werner Harnack, Wilhelm Süsserott, F. M. Becket, and T. W. Edgeworth David (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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, B.F. Stevens, 1896), by Henry Harrisse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dijmphna-Expeditionen, 1882-1883 : Rapporter til Dijmphna's rheder Herr Grosserer, Fabrikeier Augustin Gamél / (Kjøbenhavn : Forlagsbureauet i Kjøbenhavn, 1884), by Andreas Peter Hovgaard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Dutch in America. A historical argument (New York, Priv. print., 1890), by William Henry Arnoux (page images at HathiTrust)

• The voyage of John de Verazzano, along the coast of North America, from Carolina to Newfoundland, A. D. 1524., by Giovanni da Verrazzano and Joseph Green Cogswell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Works / (Boston : Little, Brown, 1910), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Bibliografia degli scritti italiani o stampati in Italia sopra Cristoforo Colombo, la scoperta del Nuovo Mondo, e i viaggi degli Italiani in America, (Roma, Auspice il Ministero della pubblica istruzione, 1893), by Giuseppe Fumagalli and Pietro Amat di S. Filippo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Antiquities of Central America : and the discovery of New-England by the Northmen, five hundred years before Columbus, a lecture, delivered in New-York, Washington, Boston, and other cities ... / (Buffalo : Steele's Press, 1842), by A. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Icelandic colonization of Greenland and the finding of Vineland, (Køb́enhavn, B. Lunos bogtrykkeri, 1918), by Daniel Bruun, trans. by Dorothy Godwin Buchwaldt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Rhode Island. (New-York, J. S. Taylor, 1853), by Edward Peterson and Fiske Icelandic Collection. NIC (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 : the voyages of the Northmen / (New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), by Edward Gaylord Bourne and Julius E. Olson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Popular history of the life of Columbus; a complete, compendious narrative of his voyages, discoveries, and general career, collected from all authentic sources ... (Washington, Woman's national press association, 1893), by J. H. Langille (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ferdinand de Soto : the discoverer of the Mississippi / (New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1876, c1873), by John S. C. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus. (Chicago, Belford, Clarke, [1885?]), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• South American fights and fighters, and other tales of adventure, (Garden City, N. Y., 1913 [c1910]), by Cyrus Townsend Brady (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spanish borderlands : a chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest / (New Haven : Yale University Press, c1921), by Herbert Eugene Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, (New York [Albany, Printed by J. Munsell for H.C. Murphy], 1871), by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, John Gilmary Shea, and Thomas W. Field, trans. by Buckingham Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gilded man (El Dorado) and other pictures of the Spanish occupancy of America, (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1893), by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier and Willard Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viaje al Río de la Plata, 1534-1554 [electronic resource] / (Buenos Aires : Cabaut y Cía., 1903), by Ulrich Schmidel, Samuel A. Lafone Quevedo, and Bartolomé Mitre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Estevan; a story of the Spanish conquests, (New York [etc.] Funk & Wagnalls company, 1892), by John R. Musick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spanish conquerors; a chronicle of the dawn of empire overseas, (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1920), by Irving Berdine Richman (page images at HathiTrust)

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