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• Transatlantic voyages -- Fiction

• Little Miss Grouch: A Narrative Based Upon the Private Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1915), by Samuel Hopkins Adams, illust. by Raymond Moreau Crosby (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (in French; 1868), by Jules Verne
  • Gutenberg text
  • unabridged amateur English translation by Don Sample: PDF files with commentary at forgottenfutures.com
• A Voyage Round the World (translation of Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant; 3 volumes; London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1876-), by Jules Verne, illust. by Edouard Riou
  • Volume 1 (South America): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2 (Australia): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 3 (New Zealand): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Voyage Out, by Virginia Woolf (Gutenberg text)

• Los Argonautas (in Spanish), by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (Gutenberg text and page images)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Voyage From Australia to England (based on issues of "Dover Castle News" shipboard paper; London: Steam Press, 1867), by John G. Horsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday (London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, c1922), by Edmund Blunden
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Voyaging in Wild Seas: A Narrative of the Voyage of the "Snark" in the Years 1907-1908 (British edition of part of The Log of the Snark; London: Mills and Boon, n.d.), by Charmian London (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Amateur Emigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook (Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cruise of the Snark, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• P & O Sketches in Pen and Ink (London: Studio of Design and Illustration Supply Agency, ca. 1898), by Harry Furniss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Co.) Hand Book of Information (number 8; Tokyo: Tokyo Printing Co., 1917), by Nihon Yūsen Kabushiki Kaisha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Aavoilla Ulapoilla (The Cruise of the Dazzler in Finnish; Porvoo: WSOY, 1915), by Jack London, trans. by Toivo Wallenius (Gutenberg text)
• The Cruise of the Dazzler, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Porter in the Far North: or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1908), by Edward Stratemeyer, illust. by Charles Nuttall (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Frontier Boys in the South Seas (New York: Hurst and Co., c1912), by Wyn Roosevelt, illust. by Rudolf Mencl
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text (without cover illustration)
• Rollo on the Atlantic (Boston: Taggard and Thompson, 1864), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Rover Boys on Land and Sea: or, The Crusoes of the Seven Islands, by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• Dave Porter in the South Seas: or, The Strange Cruise of the Stormy Petrel (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1906), by Edward Stratemeyer, illust. by I. B. Hazelton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• From Billabong to London (London et al.: Ward, Lock and Co., n.d.), by Mary Grant Bruce (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Cruise Travel (partial serial archives)

• The Lake Erie Sidewheel Steamers of Frank E. Kirby (Detroit: Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild, 1955), by Gordon Pritchard Bugbee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)

• Around the World in Eighty Hours: An Adventure Story (New York: Chelsea House, c1925), by William Wallace Cook (PDF at Toronto Public Library)

• The Wayward Bus (c1947), by John Steinbeck (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Operation: Outer Space, by Murray Leinster
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• The Vortex Blaster (as published in Comet, 1941), by E. E. Smith, illust. by John R. Forte (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Wunderwelten: Wie Lord Flitmore Eine Seltsame Reise zu Den Planeten Unternimmt und Durch Einen Kometen in die Fixsternwelt Entführt Wird (in German; Stuttgart: Verlag für Volkskunst, Rich. Keutel, ca. 1911), by Friedrich Wilhelm Mader, illust. by Willi Egler
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Man in Lower Ten, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg text)

• The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia: Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of "The Twentieth Century" (Akron, OH: MacLellan-N-Y-Company, n.d.), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text)
• The Special Correspondent: or, The Adventures of Claudius Bombarnac (New York: Lovell, Coryell and Co., c1894), by Jules Verne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Canadian Born (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1910), by Mrs. Humphry Ward, illust. by Albert Sterner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lady Merton, Colonist, by Mrs. Humphry Ward, illust. by Albert Sterner (Gutenberg text)

• The Mystery of the Blue Train (c1928), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text)

• The Daughter of a Magnate (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1903), by Frank H. Spearman, illust. by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Razor's Edge (c1944), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Penelope's Postscripts, by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Gutenberg text)

• The Razor's Edge (c1944), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Trustee From the Toolroom (c1960), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Arc and the Sediment (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2007), by Christine Diane Allen-Yazzie
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• By the Elbe (3 volumes; London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1876), by Sarah Tytler
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Frances Waldeaux, by Rebecca Harding Davis (Gutenberg text)
• Irma in Italy: A Travel Story (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1908), by Helen Leah Reed, illust. by William A. McCullough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Journey Round My Room (New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1871), by Xavier de Maistre, trans. by Henry Attwell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (in French; 1868), by Jules Verne
  • Gutenberg text
  • unabridged amateur English translation by Don Sample: PDF files with commentary at forgottenfutures.com
• Les Nourritures Terrestres (in French; Paris: Gallimard, c1921), by André Gide (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nedra (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905), by George Barr McCutcheon, illust. by Harrison Fisher (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Nedra (1906), by George Barr McCutcheon, illust. by Harrison Fisher (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Voyage Round the World (translation of Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant; 3 volumes; London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1876-), by Jules Verne, illust. by Edouard Riou
  • Volume 1 (South America): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2 (Australia): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 3 (New Zealand): multiple formats at archive.org
• When Angels Travel (c1968, with added illustrations), by Richard F. Challis (illustrated HTML with commentary at whenangelstravel.net)
• Cinq Semaines en Ballon: Voyages de Découvertes en Afrique par Trois Anglais (in French; Paris: J. Hetzel et cie, ca. 1867), by Jules Verne, illust. by Edouard Riou and H. de Montaut (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dialstone Lane, by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Dialstone Lane (London: G. Newnes, 1904), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Field of Ice (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1875), by Jules Verne, illust. by Riou (multiple formats at Google)
• The Field of Ice (New York; London: G. Routledge, 1875), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text)
• Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne, trans. by William Lackland, illust. by Edouard Riou and H. de Montaut (illustrated HTML in Israel)
• Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen, by Jules Verne, trans. by William Lackland (Gutenberg text)
• Five Weeks in a Balloon: or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (New York: Hurst and Co., c1869), by Jules Verne, trans. by William Lackland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Pacha of Many Tales, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.