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• The Red book of heroes (Longmans, 1914), by Mrs. Lang and Andrew Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• More than conquerors (Century Co., 1920), by Ariadne Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of bravery, being true stories in an ascending scale of courage. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by Henry Wysham Lanier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Book of famous explorers (Hall and Locke Co., 1902), by Edwin Erle Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emin Pasha, by M. C. Plehn, trans. by George P. Upton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The true story of Christopher Columbus (Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1893), by Elbridge Streeter Brooks, illust. by A. Zeese & Co (page images at Florida)
• The story of Marco Polo (New York: Century Co., 1896), by Marco Polo and Noah Brooks (page images at Florida)
• Great Arctic travellers (New York et al.: George Routledge and Sons, 1891), by Hugh Craig (page images at Florida)
• Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1896) (page images at Florida)

• Story of Columbus. (Educational publishing company, 1892), by Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick and Educational Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The boy's Drake; story of the great sea fighter of the sixteenth century (C. Scribner's sons, 1910), by Edwin M. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of Sir Francis Drake, by Letitia MacColl Elton, illust. by T. H. Robinson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Pioneer history stories for third and fourth grades. First series (Jones & Kroeger, 1891), by Charles A. McMurry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pioneers of the Rocky Mountains and the West (Macmillan, 1906), by Charles A. McMurry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Magellan (Lee and Shepard ;, 1880), by George M. Towle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Story of Columbus. (Educational publishing company, 1892), by Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick and Educational Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Boy's ideal, or, The story of a great life (London: W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1882), by Frances E Cooke (page images at Florida)
• History of John Rogers, the martyr (Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1851) (page images at Florida)

• Great captains of the United States Navy (DeWolfe, Fiske, 1902), by Fiske & Co DeWolfe (page images at HathiTrust)

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• True stories of heroic lives : stirring tales of courage and devotion of men and women of the Nineteenth Century... (Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the nations (Macmillan Co., 1915), by Herman Smith Alshouse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Georg Forster : das Abenteuer seines Lebens unter Wiedergabe vieler Briefe und Tagebucheintragungen erzählt von Wilhelm Langewiesche (Wilhem Langewiesche-Brandt, 1923), by Wilhelm Langewiesche and Georg Forster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Biography of Elisha Kent Kane (Childs & Peterson ;, 1981), by William Elder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Patria de Colón : según los documentos de las órdenes militares (Librería de Fernando Fé, 1892), by Francisco Rafael de Uhagón y Guardamino (page images at HathiTrust)
• An explorer of changing horizons: William Edgar Geil. (New York : G. H. Doran, [1927], 1927), by Philip Whitwell Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Juden als Erfinder und Entdecker. (Welt-Verlag, 1913), by Ernst Heppner and Nathan Birnbaum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life of David Livingstone, Ll.D. : the great missionary explorer (W. Scott, 1882), by J. S. Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explorers and travellers (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894), by A. W. Greely (page images at HathiTrust)
• Headwaters of the Mississippi comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca (Rand, McNally, 1895), by Willard Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Explorers and travellers (C. Scribner's Sons, 1893), by A. W. Greely (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Martin Frobisher, knight containing a narrative of the Spanish Armada (Longmans, Green, 1878), by Frank Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ceremonies attending the unveiling of the statue of Robert Cavelier de La Salle at Lincoln Park, Chicago October 12, 1889. (s.n.], 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life of John Davis, the navigator, 1550-1605 discoverer of Davis Straits (G. Philip, 1889), by Clements R. Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sea fathers a series of lives of great navigators of former times (Cassell, 1884), by Clements R. Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Catholic pioneers of America (H.L. Kilner, 1882), by John O'Kane Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Hudson, the navigator "the North seas' great Columbus" (s.n., 1893), by Morris Patterson Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Brave man and his belongings, being some passages in the life of Sir John Franklin, F.R.S., K.H.C., &c., &c. first discoverer of the North-West Passage. (s.n.], 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry, Kt., F.R.S. etc., late Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital (Longman, Green, 1868), by Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives and exploits of the most distinguished voyagers, adventurers and discoverers in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, the South Seas and Polar regions among which are those of Cooke [sic], Cavendish, Clapperton, Mackenzie, Park, Parry, Ross, Franklin, Lander, Denham, Dampier, Sir Francis Drake, Della Valle, Niebuhr, Sir John Chardin, &c., comprising an account of their voyages, journies, perils, sufferings and remarkable escapes, a description of their mode of travelling, a history of their most important discoveries and of the most interesting objects which came under their observation in every country (H. Huntington;, 1840), by James Augustus St. John and Hugh Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ein Weltfahrer oder Erlebnisse in vier Erdtheilen Jugen, Schicksale, Reisen und Entdeckungen von Elisha Kent Kane : unter Benutzung der besten amerikanischen Quellen (O. Spamer, 1861), by J. G. Kutzner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the voyages round the world performed by Captain James Cook with an account of his life, during the previous and intervening periods (From the press of C. Whittingham, College House ..., 1820), by Andrew Kippis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Captain James Cook (Printed by J.J. Tourneisen, 1788), by Andrew Kippis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of the celebrated Admiral Adam John de Krusenstern, the first Russian circumnavigator (Longmans, Green, Brown and Longmans, 1856), by John Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Captain James Cook (Printed for the executrix of the late W. Wetton, 1831), by Andrew Kippis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben des Capitain James Cook (Bei Benjamin Gottlob Hoffman, 1789), by Andrew Kippis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Story of Dr. Scoresby, the Arctic navigator (T. Nelson, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and voyages of Captain James Cook drawn up from his journals, and other authentic documents, and comprising much original information (Whittaker, Treacher;, 1836), by George Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Sir John Franklin, R.N. (J. Murray, 1896), by H. D. Traill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christopher Columbus (Sutherlands, 1887), by Alphonse de Lamartine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of Henry Hudson, the navigator ([s.n.], 1867), by G. M. Asher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir John Franklin (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881), by A. H. Beesly (page images at HathiTrust)
• A prairie tragedy the fate of Thomas Simpson, the arctic explorer : read before the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba (Transaction no. 26 [i.e. 27]) (G.C. Mortimore, 1887), by Alexander McArthur and Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabot bibliography with an introductory essay on the careers of the Cabots based upon an independent examination of the sources of information (Dodd, Mead;, 1900), by George Parker Winship (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The love-life of Dr. Kane containing the correspondence, and a history of the acquaintance, engagement and secret marriage between Elisha K. Kane and Margaret Fox; with facsimiles of letters and her portrait. (Carleton, 1866), by Elisha Kent Kane and Margaret Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus together with the voyages of his companions (H.G. Bohn, 1850), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry, Kt., F.R.S. etc., late Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), by Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Singular life of John Ledyard (Carter, Hendee and Babcock, 1831), by fl. 1831 Yankee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sébastien Cabot, navigateur vénitien (1497-1557) étude d'histoire critique et documentaire. (Institut géographique de Paris :, 1895), by Henry Harrisse and Institut géographique de Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les grands hommes de la France navigateurs (P. Ducrocq, 1873), by Edouard Goepp and Emile L. Cordier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie illustrée de Christophe Colomb (F. Paillart, 1898), by Charles d' Hallencourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les voyages de Giovanni Verrazano sur les côtes d'Amérique avec des marins normands, pour le compte du roi de France en 1525-1528 (s.n.], 1898), by Gabriel Gravier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice sur Samuel Champlain né à Brouage 1567, mort à Québec, le 25 décembre 1635 (L. Clouzot, 1867), by L. Delayant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de Christophe Colomb (Cadieux et Derome, 1883), by Antoine François Félix Roselly de Lorgues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Centenaire de la mort de Lapérouse célébré le 20 avril 1888 en séance solennelle à la Sorbonne (Société de géographie, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vie du capitaine Cook (Hôtel de Thou, 1789), by Andrew Kippis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sébastien Cabot, pilote-major d'Espagne, considéré comme cartographe (Institut géographique de Paris, 1897), by Henry Harrisse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry, Kt., F.R.S. etc., late Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich Hospital (Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1857), by Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Henry Hudson (D. Appleton;, 1843), by Lambert Lilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Captain James Cook (Printed for G. Nicol ... and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1788), by Andrew Kippis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry Kt., F. R. S. etc., late Lieut.-Governor of Greenwich Hospital (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857), by Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Catholic pioneers of America (Brennan, 1882), by John O'Kane Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice biographique sur l'amiral Sir John Franklin, correspondant de la Société de géographie, etc. (1) (s.n., 1859), by Jean Bernard Marie Alexandre Dezos de La Roquette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1858), by Edward Parry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hernando de Soto : together with an account of one of his captains, Gonçalo Silvestre (Heinemann, 1988), by R. B. Cunninghame Graham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lives and voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier : including an introductory view of the earlier discoveries in the South Sea and the history of the bucaniers. (A.L. Fowle, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• David Livingstone : the weaver boy who became a missionary (Hodder and Stoughton, 1892), by Henry Gardiner Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Ruwwād (880-04 Miṣr : Maṭbaʻat al-Muqtaṭaf wa-al-Muqaṭṭam, 1927., 1927), by Muqtaṭaf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• David Livingstone : Africa's pathfinder and emancipator (Baptist Board of Education, Department of Missionary Education, 1927), by Floyd L. Carr and Basil Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of celebrated travellers, Vol. 1. (of 3), by James Augustus St. John (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3 (of 3), by James Augustus St. John (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 2 (of 3), by James Augustus St. John (Gutenberg ebook)

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