Norfolk (Va.) -- Description and travel
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Norfolk, the Marine Metropolis of Virginia, and the Sound and River Cities of North Carolina: A Narrative (Raleigh, NC: Geo. I Nowitzky, 1888), by George I. Nowitzky (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
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Filed under: Norfolk (Va.)- Ye Ancient History of Norfolk in Rag Time (c1913), by Frank Wing
- Illustrated Standard Guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth; and Historical Events of Virginia, 1607 to 1907 (Norfolk, VA: Standard Lithographing and Publishing Co., c1907) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Norfolk and Vicinity, Including Portsmouth and the Adjacent Counties, During a Period of Two Hundred Years (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1853), by William S. Forrest
- The Summer of the Pestilence: A History of the Ravages of the Yellow Fever in Norfolk, Virginia, A.D. 1855 (Philadelp[hia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1856), by George D. Armstrong (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Report of the Philadelphia Relief Committee, Appointed to Collect Funds for the Sufferers by Yellow Fever, at Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., 1855, by Philadelphia Relief Committee to Collect Funds for the Sufferers by Yellow Fever (page images at MOA)
- The Summer of the Pestilence: A History of the Ravages of the Yellow Fever in Norfolk, Virginia, A.D. 1855 (Philadelp[hia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1856), by George D. Armstrong (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in Virginia in Revolutionary Times (c1922), ed. by Alfred J. Morrison (HTML and page images at LOC)
- On Horseback, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
- Physical Survey of Virginia, by Matthew Fontaine Maury (page images at MOA)
- The Virginia Tourist, by Edward A. Pollard (page images at MOA)
- Rambles in the Path of the Steam-Horse, by Eli Bowen (page images at MOA)
- The Tidewater Cities of Hampton Roads, Virginia: Your Host for 1907, by Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Virginia After the War: An Account of Three Years' Experience in Reorganizing the Methodist Episcopal Church in Virginia at the Close of the Civil War (Indianapolis: Baker-Randolph Litho. and Eng. Co., 1891), by S. L. M. Conser (at memory.loc.gov)
- Documents Connected With the History of South Carolina (London, 1856), ed. by Plowden C. J. Weston (multiple formats at Google)
- Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Norfolk and Vicinity, Including Portsmouth and the Adjacent Counties, During a Period of Two Hundred Years (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1853), by William S. Forrest
- A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina (Boston: J. Norman, 1787), by Thomas Hutchins (PDF at ohiomemory.org)
- Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River and Kanawha Canal, by George William Bagby (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Proceedings of the Convention of Southern Governors, Held in the City of Richmond, Virginia, on April 12th and 13th, 1893: With Papers Prepared by the Governors of Arkansas, Alabama, South Carolina and Virginia, in Regard to the Physical Resources of Their Respective States (Richmond: C. N. Williams, 1893) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Scenes in My Native Land (Boston: J. Munroe and company, 1845), by L. H. Sigourney (illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
- Notes on the State of Virginia (multiple editions, annotated; 2014), by Thomas Jefferson, ed. by John O'Brien and Brad Pasanek (multimedia at jefferson-notes.org)
- Travels of a Frenchman in Maryland and Virginia, with a description of Philadelphia and Baltimore, in 1791; or, Travels in the Interior of the United States, to Bath, Winchester, in the Valley of the Shenandoah, etc., etc., During the Summer of 1791 (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1950), by Ferdinand Bayard de La Vingtrie, ed. by Ben C. McCary (page images at HathiTrust)
- The History of Virginia, in Four Parts (second edition; London: Printed for B. and S. Tooke et al., 1722), by Robert Beverley
- Nova Britannia: Offering Most Excellent Fruites By Planting In Virginia, Exciting All Such As Be Well Affected To Further The Same. London, Printed for S. Macham, 1609. (#6 of American Colonial Tracts reprints; Rochester, NY: G. P. Humphrey, 1897), by Robert Johnson
- A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (Frankfort: imprinted by John Wechel, at Theodore de Bry, 1590), by Thomas Harriot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, by Thomas Harriot, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
- A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (based on the 1590 edition, with modernized spelling), by Thomas Harriot (HTML at nps.gov)
- A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, by Thomas Harriot
- Travels of a Frenchman in Maryland and Virginia, with a description of Philadelphia and Baltimore, in 1791; or, Travels in the Interior of the United States, to Bath, Winchester, in the Valley of the Shenandoah, etc., etc., During the Summer of 1791 (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1950), by Ferdinand Bayard de La Vingtrie, ed. by Ben C. McCary (page images at HathiTrust)
- Early Charlottesville: Recollections of James Alexander, 1828-1874 (reprinted from the Jeffersonian Republican by the Albemarle County Historical Society; 1942), by James Alexander, ed. by Mary Rawlings (page images at HathiTrust)
- Scutari, the Bosphorus and the Crimea: Twenty Four Sketches (2 volumes; Ventor: J. Lavars, 1857), by Lady Alicia Blackwood
- Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains: An Exploration (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1863), by Richard Francis Burton
- In the Abruzzi (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908), by Anne Macdonell, illust. by Amy Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- In the Abruzzi (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1908), by Anne Macdonell, illust. by Amy Atkinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Adirondack: or, Life in the Woods, by J. T. Headley (page images at MOA)
- Adventures in the Wilderness, by W. H. H. Murray (page images at MOA)
- Woods and Waters: or, The Saranacs and Racket, by Alfred Billings Street (page images at MOA)
- The Eastern Shores of the Adriatic in 1863, With a Visit to Montenegro (London: R. Bentley, 1864), by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford (page images at Google)
- Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in That City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 (from the second edition; Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1843), by Alexander Burnes
- An Amateur in Africa (New York: The Adelphi Co., ca. 1925), by C. Lestock Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
- Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia and the Abyssines, With All the Adjacent Islands, Either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern or Oriental Sea, Belonging Thereunto (London: Printed by T. Johnson for the author, 1670), by John Ogilby (HTML at EEBP TCP)
- My Journey From Rhodesia to Egypt, Including an Ascent of Ruwenzori and a Short Account of the Route From Cape Town to Broken Hill and Lado to Alexandria (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1911), by Theo Kassner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Round the Black Man's Garden (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1903), by Zélie Colvile (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Woman's Winter in Africa: A 26,000 Mile Journey (London: S. Paul and Co., c1913), by Charlotte Cameron
- The Congo and Coasts of Africa (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Richard Harding Davis
- Great African Travellers, from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Travels of a Philosopher: or, Observations on the Manners and Arts of Various Nations in Africa and Asia (Augusta: Reprinted by P. Edes, 1797), by Pierre Poivre (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Blind African Slave, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace, by Boyrereau Brinch and Benjamin F. Prentiss (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Black Journey: Across Central Africa With the Citroën Expedition (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1927), by Georges-Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (page images at HathiTrust)
- Adventures Beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913), by Edith Cecil Maturin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Adventures Beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1913), by Edith Cecil Maturin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Five Years with the Congo Cannibals (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1890), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Five Years With the Congo Cannibals (third edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis
- From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile: An Account of the German Central African Expedition of 1910-1911 (2 volumes; London: Duckworth and Co., 1913), by Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Adolf Friedrich
- Geographical Notes of Expeditions in Central Africa by Three Dutch Ladies (Liverpool: T. Brakell, 1864), by John A. Tinne (page images at Google)
- Great Explorations in the Wilds of Africa (Toronto: A. H. Hovey and Co., 1886), ed. by J. T. Headley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871 (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1874), by Georg August Schweinfurth, trans. by Ellen E. Frewer, contrib. by Winwood Reade
- In Darkest Africa: or The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), by Henry M. Stanley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, by Samuel White Baker (Gutenberg text)
- The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration (2 volumes; London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), by Richard Francis Burton
- The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa (originally published 1859), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF at burtoniana.org)
- Tramps Round the Mountains of the Moon and Through the Back Gate of the Congo State (London et al.: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), by T. Broadwood Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Auspices of H. B. M.'s Government in the Years 1849-1855 (5 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857-1858), by Heinrich Barth
- A Voice From the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Herbert Ward
- After Big Game in Central Africa: Records of a Sportsman From August 1894 to November 1897, When Crossing the Dark Continent From the Mouth of the Zambesi to the French Congo (London: A. and C. Black, 1899), by Edouard Foà, trans. by Frederic Lees (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Boy Travellers on the Congo: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey with Henry M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent" (New York: Harper and Bros., 1888), by Thomas Wallace Knox, contrib. by Henry M. Stanley
- Explorations in Africa, by Dr. David Livingstone, and Others, Giving a Full Account of the Stanley-Livingstone Expedition of Search, Under the Patronage of the New York "Herald", As Furnished by Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley (1872), ed. by Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, contrib. by David Livingstone and Henry M. Stanley (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- From Hausaland to Egypt, Through the Sudan (London: Constable and Co., 1910), by Karl Kumm
- From Ruwenzori to the Congo: A Naturalist's Journey Across Africa (London: J. Murray, 1908), by A. F. R. Wollaston (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Second Journey Through Equatorial Africa From the Congo to the Zambesi in the Years 1886 and 1887 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Hermann von Wissmann, trans. by Minna J. A. Bergmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, and of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864, by David Livingstone (Gutenberg text)
- Correspondenzblatt der Afrikanischen Gesellschaft (2 volumes bound together, covering 1873-1878), by Afrikanische Gesellschaft in Deutschland
- A Visit to Stanley's Rear-Guard at Major Barttelot's Camp on the Aruhwimi, With an Account of the River-Life on the Congo (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1889), by John Reinhardt Werner (multiple formats at archive.org)
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