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• Wanderings in South America, by Charles Waterton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Our Search for a Wilderness: An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1910), by Blair Niles and William Beebe
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• Notes on the West Indies: written during the expedition under the command of the late General Sir Ralph Abercromby: including observations on the island of Barbados, and the settlements captured by the British troops, upon the coast of Guiana: likewise remarks relating to the Creoles and slaves of the western colonies, and the Indians of South America: with occasional hints, regarding the seasoning, or yellow fever of hot climates. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806), by George Pinckard and W. Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage du chevalier Des Marchais en Guinée, isles voisines, et à Cayenne, fait en 1725, 1726 & 1727. Contenant une description très exacte & très étendue de ces païs, & du commerce qui s'y fait. Enrichi d'un grand nombre de cartes & de figures en tailles douces. Tome premier-[IV]. (G. Saugrain, 1730), by Jean Baptiste Labat, Renoud Desmarchais, Pierre Aimé Lombard, François Béchamel, Jean Grillet, Chevalier de Milhau, and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on Negroslavery and Canadian emigration. (R. Bentley, 1833), by James Edward Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• British Guiana. British Empire exhibition ... 1924. (Printed at the Baynard press by Sanders Phillips & co., ltd., 1924), by British Guiana and London British Empire Exhibition (1924-1925 : Wembley (page images at HathiTrust)
• El Dorado; being a narrative of the circumstances which gave rise to reports, in the sixteenth century, of the existence of a rich and splendid city in South America, to which that name was given ... including a defence of Sir Walter Raleigh, in regard to the relations made by him respecting it ... (J. Winchester, 1844), by J. A. Van Heuvel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Schomburgk's Travels in British Guiana, 1840-1844. ("Daily Chronicle" Office, 1922), by Richard Schomburgk and Walter Edmund Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jungle peace (The Modern Library, 1925), by William Beebe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history. (J. Mawman, 1825), by Charles Waterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-five years in British Guiana. (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by Henry Kirke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Among the Indians of Guiana; being sketches chiefly anthropologic from the interior of British Guiana (K. Paul, Trench & Co., 1883), by Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Guiana forest; studies of nature in relation to the struggle for life (C. Scribner'ssons, 1894), by James Rodway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Botanical reminiscences in British Guiana (W.C. Cox, 1876), by Richard Schomburgk (page images at HathiTrust)
• A relation of a voyage to Guiana (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1928), by Robert Harcourt and C. Alexander Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roraima and British Guiana, with a glance at Bermuda, the West Indies, and the Spanish Main. (Hurst and Blackett, 1879), by J. W. Boddam-Whetham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through British Guyana to the summit of Roraima (New York : E.P.Dutton, 1920), by Cecil Clementi (page images at HathiTrust)
• A soldier's recollections of the West Indies and America; with a narrative of the expedition to the island of Walcheren. (R. Bentley, 1834), by Thomas Staunton St. Clair (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies: the natural and physical history of the Windward and Leeward colonies; with some account of the moral, social, and political condition of their inhabitants, immediately before and after the abolition of Negro slavery: (J. W. Parker, 1837), by Andrew Halliday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rambles and scrambles in North and South America (London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1852., 1852), by Edward Robert Sullivan and Richard Bentley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pindorama; jungle--to you! ... (Minton, Balch & Company, 1933), by Desmond Holdridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• British Guiana. The Essequibo and Potaro rivers, with an account of a visit to the recently-discovered Kaieteur Falls. (E. Stanford, 1873), by Edward John Webber (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the diamond trail in British Guiana (Methuen & co., ltd., 1925), by Gwen Richardson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The West Indies : with British Guiana and British Honduras. (New York, 1925), by George Manington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Waterton's wanderings in South America (Macmillan, 1879), by Charles Waterton and J. G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States and the Antilles : in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, &c. for cabinets of natural history (T. Fellowes, 1866), by Charles Waterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1816, 1820, & 1824 (B. Fellowes, 1828), by Charles Waterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the West Indies : including observations relative to the Creoles and slaves of the western colonies and the Indian of South America : interspersed with remarks upon the seasoning or yellow fever of hot climates (Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, etc., 1816), by George Pinckard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage to the Demerary, containing a statistical account of the settlements there, and of those on the Essequebo, the Berbice, and other contiguous rivers of Guyana. (R. Phillips, 1807), by Henry Bolingbroke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 (Sturgis & Walton company, 1909), by Charles Waterton and Norman Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States and the Antilles in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history (Macmillan, 1885), by Charles Waterton and J. G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Door West-Indië: Antillen, Panama, Venezuela, Britsch Guyana, Suriname (H.D. Tjeenk Willink & zoon, 1915), by C. J. Wijnaendts Francken (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the diamond trail in British Guiana (Brentano's, 1925), by Gwen Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West Indies, with British Guiana and British Honduras (L. Parsons, 1925), by George Manington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jungle peace (H. Holt and Company, 1918), by William Beebe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Door West-Indië: Antillen, Panama, Venezuela, Britsch Guyana, Suriname (H. D. Tjeenk Willink, 1915), by Cornelis Johannes Wijnaendts Francken (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mission work among the Indian tribes in the forests of Guiana. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge;, 1881), by W. H. Brett and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Tract Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canoe and camp life in British Guiana (E. Stanford, 1876), by Charles Barrington Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Guiana forest; studies of nature in relation to the struggle for life ... (T. F. Unwin, 1897), by James Rodway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pod tropikami : stranstvovanīe po Venet͡suėli͡e, na Orinoko, v Britanskoĭ Gvīani͡e i na Amazonki͡e s 1845 po 1868 god (Obshchestvennai͡a polʹza, 1873), by Carl Ferdinand Appun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transatlantic sketches, comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on negro slavery and Canadian emigration. (Key and Biddle, 1833), by James Edward Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage to the Demerary : containing a statistical account of the settlements there, and of those on the Essequebo, the Berbice, and other contiguous rivers of Guyana (R. Phillips, 1807), by Henry Bolingbroke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jungle peace (Modern Library, 1920), by William Beebe (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Guiana forest; studies of nature in relation to the struggle for life. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by James Rodway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 and 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds and for cabinets of natural history (Fellowes, 1839), by Charles Waterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage to the Demerary, containing a statistical account of the settlements there, and of those on the Essequebo, the Berbice, and other contiguous rivers of Guyana. (M. Carey, 1813), by Henry Bolingbroke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transatlantic sketches comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies; with notes on Negro slavery and Canadian emigration (R. Bentley, 1833), by James Edward Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jungle peace (Copp, Clark, 1919), by William Beebe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Impressions of a naturalist in British Guiana (The Society, 1906), by Angelo Heilprin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etude sur les recherches scientifiques de Fusée Aublet à la guyane Française (1762-1764) (Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts; comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques ;, 1897), by Henri Froidevaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of African and Indian life in British Guiana (The "Argosy" Press, 1885), by Ignatius Scoles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the third expedition into the interior of Guayana, comprising the journey to the sources of the Essequibo, to the Carumá Mountains, and to Fort San Joaquim, on the Rio Branco, in 1837-8. ([London, 1841), by Robert H. Schomburgk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transatlantic sketches : comprising visits to the most interesting scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies. With notes on Negro slavery and Canadian emigration (Richard Bentley. Publisher in ordinary to His Majesty, 1833), by James Edward Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jungle peace (Witherby, 1919), by William Beebe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reisen der Brüder Schomburgk in Britisch-Guiana. (Auffarth, 1852), by Richard Schomburgk and Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Stricker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Background notes, Guyana. (U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication :, 1998), by United States. Department of State. Office of Public Communication (page images at HathiTrust)
• Background notes, Guyana. (U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, Editorial Division :, 1985), by United States. Department of State. Office of Public Communication. Editorial Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Background notes, Guyana. (U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication, Editorial Division :, 1989), by United States. Department of State. Office of Public Communication. Editorial Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Background notes, Guyana. ([U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Public Communication] :, 1994), by United States. Department of State. Office of Public Communication (page images at HathiTrust)
• West Indies and Guiana with Honduras, Bermuda and the Falklands, six lectures prepared for the Visual instruction committee of the Colonial office (G. Philip & Son, Ltd. ; [etc., etc.], 1914), by Algernon Edward Aspinall (page images at HathiTrust)
• British Guiana: being notes on a few of its natural productions, industrial occupations, and social institutions. (Murray, 1866), by Robert Duff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes and comments on my trip to the diamond fields of British Guiana (Baldwin, Printers], 1902), by Walter Grainge White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings in South America, etc. (T. Nelson, 1891), by Charles Waterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mission work among the Indian tribes in the forests of Guiana. (London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York : E. & J. B. Young and Co., [1881], 1881), by W. H. Brett and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Tract Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings in South America (J.M. Dent & sons ;, 1925), by Charles Waterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Up the Mazaruni for diamonds. (Marshall Jones company, 1932), by William La Varre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jungle peace (Holt, 1944), by William Beebe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exploring the jungle (D.C. Heath and company, 1941), by JoBesse McElveen Waldeck and Weds Yap (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jungle peace (H. Holt, 1936), by William Beebe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stewards handbook on West Indies and British Guiana (S.P.G Office, 1915), by Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain). Missionary Exhibitions Department (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jungle peace. (Holt, 1926), by Charles William Beebe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc., for cabinets of natural history. (Macmillan, 1907), by Charles Waterton and J. G. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our search for a wilderness; an account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana (Constable, 1910), by Mary Beebe and William Beebe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, & 1824 : with original instructions for the perfect preservation of birds, etc. for cabinets of natural history (Macmillan, 1889), by Charles Waterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some haphazard notes of a forty-two years' residence in British Guiana (Argosy Press, 1899), by John Thomas Thorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roraima and British Guiana, With a Glance at Bermuda, the West Indies, and the Spanish Main, by J. W. Boddam-Whetham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Through British Guiana to the summit of Roraima, by Cecil Clementi (Gutenberg ebook)
• Up the Mazaruni for Diamonds, by William La Varre (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jungle Peace, by William Beebe, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wanderings in South America, by Charles Waterton, contrib. by Norman Moore (Gutenberg ebook)
• Een Reis naar het Land van de Cacao en de Suiker: De Aarde en haar Volken, 1908 (in Dutch), by Th Dufau (Gutenberg ebook)
• A sommary description manifesting that greater profits are to bee done in the hott then in the could [sic] parts off the coast off America and how much the public good is concerned therein referring to the annexed advertissement for men inclined to plantations. ([Rotterdam] : Printed for Sir Balthazar Gerbier Kyt Douvilly, 1660), by Balthazar Gerbier (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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