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Filed under: Explorers -- United States -- Biography 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)
Filed under: African American explorers -- Biography 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 Filed under: Explorers -- United States -- Diaries
Filed under: Explorers -- United States -- History -- 16th centuryFiled under: Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 For the Recognition of Matthew A. Hensen: Hearing Before the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12388, a Bill To Provide for the Recognition Of The Heroic Conduct and Devotion To Duty of Matthew A. Hensen, One of the Survivors of the Polar Expedition of Admiral Peary, and To Provide a Life Pension for the Said Matthew A. Hensen; May 22, 1936 (Washington: GPO, 1936), by United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (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 Filed under: Dewart, Gilbert, 1932-Filed under: Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 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)
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Filed under: Explorers Explorers and Travellers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by A. W. Greely (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) The Explorers of Australia, and Their Life-Work (1908), by Ernest Favenc The Last Secrets: The Final Mysteries of Exploration (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1923), by John Buchan 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 et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by M. Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)
Filed under: Explorers -- Africa
Filed under: Explorers -- Fiction 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 (Gutenberg text) 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)
Filed under: Explorers -- France Agents et Voyageurs Français au Maroc, 1530-1660 (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1911), by Henry Castries
Filed under: Explorers -- Juvenile fiction
Filed under: Explorers -- Juvenile literature Stories of Great American Scouts: Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Lewis and Clark, Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill (Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., c1924), by John Jay Jones (page images at childrensbooksonline.org) Conquerors of the Sea (Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., 1924), by Jerome Wiechers, illust. by Ray Gleason (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
Filed under: Explorers -- Netherlands
Filed under: Explorers -- Portugal 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) Filed under: Explorers in literatureFiled under: Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de, 1796-1878Filed under: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1893), by Isabel Burton The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton (London: H. S. Nichols, 1896), by Georgiana M. Stisted (multiple formats at archive.org) Falconry in the Valley of the Indus (first edition; London: John van Voorst, 1852), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF page images at burtoniana.org) The Land of Midian (Revisited) (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1879), by Richard Francis Burton The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897), by Isabel Burton and W. H. Wilkins The Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg text) Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, by Richard Francis Burton, ed. by Isabel Burton Dreamers of Empire (New York: F. A. Stokes, 1929), by Achmed Abdullah and Compton Pakenham, illust. by B. K. Morris (page images at HathiTrust) Filed under: Champlain, Samuel de, 1574-1635Filed under: Columbus, Christopher Christopher Columbus: A Latter-Day Saint Perspective (1992), by Arnold K. Garr (HTML at BYU) Columbus in the Capitol (Quincentenary edition; Washington: GPO, 1992), ed. by Ann Baldessarini Chambers (page images at HathiTrust) Christopher Columbus (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., c1941), by Daniel Sargent (page images at HathiTrust) Christopher Columbus, by Mildred Stapley Byne (Gutenberg text) Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery, by Filson Young (Gutenberg text) 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 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 The Life of Christopher Columbus: From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time, by Edward Everett Hale (Gutenberg text) The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral, by Elbridge S. Brooks (Gutenberg text) As Duas Americas (second edition, in Portuguese; Lisbon: J. Bastos, 1900), by Candido Costa, illust. by António Ramalho Unpublished Orations, by John Fiske (HTML at elfinspell.com)
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