Explorers -- Biography
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Explorers -- America -- Biography
- Explorers -- Canada -- Biography
- Explorers -- France -- Biography
- Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Explorers -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography
- Explorers -- Northwest, Canadian -- Biography
- Explorers -- Pacific Area -- Biography
- Explorers -- Spain -- Biography
- Explorers -- Sweden -- Biography
- Explorers -- United States -- Biography
- Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
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The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v3-5; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving- Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at ibiblio.org)
- A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
- A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
- The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)
- The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
- The Lure of the Labrador Wild: The Story of the Exploring Expedition Conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., by Dillon Wallace (Gutenberg text)
- The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
- Laperouse, by Ernest Scott
- Caesars of the Wilderness: Médard Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers and Pierre Esprit Radisson, 1618-1710 (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., c1943), by Grace Lee Nute (page images at HathiTrust)
- Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons (in French; Paris: D. Moreau, 1632), by Gabriel Sagard (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by P. J. Capelotti (PDF at University of Calgary)
- The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1893), by Isabel Burton
- The Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg text)
- The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton (London: H. S. Nichols, 1896), by Georgiana M. Stisted (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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: Stevens, 1896), by Henry Harrisse (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Richard Field, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
- A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian Voyage (London: Roger Ward, 1589), by Walter Bigges (page images at LOC)
- The Life of Captain James Cook (Basel, Switzerland: Printed by J.J. Tourneisen, 1788), by Andrew Kippis
- A Discourse in Commendation of the Valiant as Vertuous Minded Gentleman, Maister Frauncis Drake, With a Reioysing of His Happy Aduentures (1581), by Nicholas Breton (page images at LOC)
- The English Hero, or Sir Francis Drake Reviv'd (London: Printed for N. Crouch, 1695), by R. B. (page images at LOC)
- Simon Fraser (Toronto: Ryerson Press, ca. 1928), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton, illust. by Charles W. Jefferys (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Who's Who in Pacific Navigation (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1991), by John Dunmore (PDF and Epub with commentary at hawaiiopen.org)
- The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v3-5; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
- Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at ibiblio.org)
- Vdol' Poli︠a︡rnykh Okrainʺ Rossīi: Puteshestvīe Nordenshel'da Vokrug Evropy i Azīi v' 1878-1880 g. (in Russian; St. Petersburg: K. Birkenfeld, 1898), by Ė. Granstrem (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- Antarctic Comrades: An American With the Russians in Antarctica (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Gilbert Dewart (PDF at Ohio State)
- Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, U.S. Navy, 1798-1877 (Washington: Naval History Division, Dept. of the Navy, 1978), by Charles Wilkes, ed. by William James Morgan, David Budlong Tyler, Joye L. Leonhart, and Mary F. Loughlin, contrib. by John D. H. Kane (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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 Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
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Filed under: Explorers- The Last Secrets: The Final Mysteries of Exploration (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1923), by John Buchan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Explorers of Australia, and Their Life-Work (1908), by Ernest Favenc
- Notable Voyagers, by William Henry Giles Kingston and Henry Frith (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
- Breaking the Record: The Story of Three Arctic Expeditions (London, Edinburgh : T. Nelson, 1898), by M. Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Great African Travellers, from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Heroes of the Dark Continent, by James W. Buel (illustrated HTML with commentary at erbzine.com)
- The Centaurians: A Novel (New York: Broadway Publishing Co., c1911), by Biagi (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fortitude, by Hugh Walpole (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)
- 1492, by Mary Johnston
- 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)
- Agents et Voyageurs Français au Maroc, 1530-1660 (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1911), by Henry Castries
- Conquerors of the Sea (Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., 1924), by Jerome Wiechers, illust. by Ray Gleason (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Sea Road to the Indies: An Account of the Voyages and Exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, Together With the Life and Times of Dom Vasco da Gama, Capitão-Mór, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira (New York: Macmillan, 1950), by Henry H. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Lusiad: or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem (London: G. Bell, 1877), by Luís de Camões, ed. by Edward Richmond Hodges, trans. by William Julius Mickle (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
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