Oceania -- Discovery and exploration
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The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595-1606 (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1904), ed. by Clements R. Markham, contrib. by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Basil H. Soulsby, Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez, Juan de Torquemada, Luis Vaez de Torres, Diego de Prado y Tovar, Fernando de Castro, Juan Luis Arias, and Gaspar Gonzalez de Leza- James Cook's Journal of Remarkable Occurrences aboard His Majesty's Bark Endeavour, 1768-1771 (transcription from original manuscript copy, Manuscript 1, National Library of Australia; with related journals), by James Cook (HTML at National Library of Australia)
- Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1940, 1841, 1842 (5 volumes; Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845), by Charles Wilkes
- The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Around the World (1821), by James Cook
- volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
- Voyage Round the World, Embracing the Principal Events of the Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition (Philadelphia: G. W. Gorton, 1849), by Charles Wilkes (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Far West Coast (Toronto: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1924), by Vernon Llewllyn Denton (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere (3 volumes; London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773), by John Byron, Samuel Wallis, Philip Carteret, James Cook, and Joseph Banks, ed. by John Hawkesworth
- A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1784), by James Cook and James King
- A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World: Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775 (London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777), by James Cook and Tobias Furneaux
- Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World Made in H. M. Bark "Endeavour", 1768-71 (London; Elliot Stock, 1893), by James Cook, ed. by W. J. L. Wharton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship, the Endeavour (London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773), by Sydney Parkinson, ed. by Stanfield Parkinson (HTML at National Library of Australia)
- The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1771, by Joseph Banks, ed. by J. C. Beaglehole (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
- A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World (London: Printed for A. Hogg, ca. 1786), ed. by George William Anderson (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- Discovery and Empire: The French in the South Seas (c2013), ed. by John West-Sooby (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Oceania- What Future for the Islands of the Pacific? (1944), by Felix Maxwell Keesing (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
- Notes From My South Sea Log (London: T. W. Laurie, ca. 1905), by Louis Becke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Oceania: A Supplementary Geography (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by James Franklin Chamberlain and Arthur Henry Chamberlain
- Reforming Trade Policy in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands (originally published 2000; republished 2009), by Kym Anderson and Malcolm Bosworth (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
- Reforming Trade Policy in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands (originally published 2000; republished 2009), by Kym Anderson and Malcolm Bosworth (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
- A Modern Sea Beggar: Being the Story of His Cruise From Newlyn to Fiji in the Yawl 'Inyala', With Letters Telling of His Life in the South Seas (London: Peter Davies, 1938), by Temple Utley, ed. by Freda Utley and Emily Utley (PDF at fredautley.com)
- The Island World of the Pacific, by Henry T. Cheever (page images at MOA)
- A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-War (new edition, complete in 1 volume; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1882), by C. F. Gordon Cumming
- The Log of the Snark (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Charmian London (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Voyage Around the Globe (Shawano, WI: Wiegand and Esser, printers, 1897), by W. L. Fosdick
- Oceanic Sketches (with a botanical appendix by Hooker; London: J. Cochrane and Co., 1835), by Thomas Nightingale, contrib. by William Jackson Hooker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Through the South Seas with Jack London (London: T.W. Laurie, ca. 1913), by Martin Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Unconducted Wanderers (London and New York: J. Lane, 1919), by Rosita Forbes (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Wild Life in Southern Seas (London: T. F. Unwin, 1897), by Louis Becke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- From Saranac to the Marquesas and Beyond: Being Letters Written by Mrs. M.I. Stevenson During 1887-88, To Her Sister, Jane Whyte Balfour (London: Methuen and co., 1903), by M. I. Stevenson and Marie Clothilde Balfour, contrib. by George William Balfour (multiple formats at archive.org)
- History of the Establishment and Progress of the Christian Religion in the Islands of the South Sea; With Preliminary Notices of the Islands and of Their Inhabitants (published anonymously, but attributed to Smith; Boston: Tappan and Dennet; et al., 1841), by Sarah Tappan Smith
- The Mystery of Easter Island: The Story of an Expedition (London and Aylesbury: Printed for the author by Hazell, Watson and Viney, ca. 1919), by Katherine Routledge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Mystery of Easter Island: The Story of an Expedition (second edition; London and Aylesbury: Printed for the author by Hazell, Watson and Viney, 1920), by Katherine Routledge (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Retour de la Nouvelle-Calédonie: De Nouméa en Europe (text attributed to Rochefort by BNF; in French; Paris: Martinon, ca. 1877), by Henri Rochefort (page images at HathiTrust)
- Wanderings Among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines (London: Witherby and Co., 1909), by H. Wilfrid Walker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- 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 Cruise of the Snark, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
- South Pacific Affair (New York: Belmont Books, 1961), by Ed Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Gates of Morning (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1925), by H. De Vere Stacpoole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Seibert of the Island (ca. 1925), by Gordon Young (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- The Old Men of the Sea: A Romance of Adventure in the South Pacific (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1924), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Garden of God (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by H. De Vere Stacpoole (Gutenberg text)
- Nobody's Island (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1923), by Beatrice Grimshaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Hurricane Williams (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Gordon Young
- The Island God Forgot (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1922), by Charles B. Stilson and Charles Beahan (page images at HathiTrust)
- My South Sea Sweetheart (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921), by Beatrice Grimshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands (New York: George H. Doran and Co., c1921), by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)
- Adventure, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
- The Adventures of a Supercargo (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905), by Louis Becke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Auringon Poika: Seikkailuja Etelämerellä (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
- The Blue Lagoon, by H. De Vere Stacpoole (Gutenberg text)
- By Reef and Palm, by Louis Becke (Gutenberg text)
- By Reef and Palm, and Other Stories, by Louis Becke (HTML and PDF at University of Sydney)
- The Call of the South (London: J. Milne, 1908), by Louis Becke
- The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas, by Walter E. Traprock, by George S. Chappell (Gutenberg text)
- The Ebbing of the Tide: South Sea Stories (1896), by Louis Becke
- The God of Civilization: A Romance (Chicago: Eureka Pub. Co., c1890), by Mrs. M. A. Weeks Pittock (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Guinea Gold (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1912), by Beatrice Grimshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Helen Adair (London: T. F. Unwin; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1903), by Louis Becke (page images at Google; US access only)
- His Native Wife (London: T. F. Unwin, Ca. 1896), by Louis Becke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ihmissyöjäin Saarilla (Adventure in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1920), by Jack London, trans. by Aune Tudeer (Gutenberg text)
- Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1908), by W. C. Morrow, illust. by Maynard Dixon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- My Lady of the Island: A Tale of the South Seas (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1916), by Beatrice Grimshaw, illust. by Harvey Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Red Mark, and Other Stories (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by John Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Son of the Sun, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- South Sea Tales, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
- Turned Adrift, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by Edward S. Hodgson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Where the Pavement Ends (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1919), by John Russell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Pearl Lagoon (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., c1924), by Charles Nordhoff, illust. by Anton Otto Fischer (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Chinkie's Flat and Other Stories (London: T. F. Unwin; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1904), by Louis Becke
- Edward Barry (South Sea Pearler) (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900), by Louis Becke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Edward Barry (South Sea Pearler) (London and Edinburgh: T. Nelson and Sons, 1914), by Louis Becke (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Modern Buccaneer (second edition; London and New York: Macmillan, 1894), by Rolf Boldrewood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Yorke the Adventurer, and Other Stories (London: T. F. Unwin, 1901), by Louis Becke
- Island (c1962), by Aldous Huxley (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The Moon Pool, by Abraham Merritt
- When the World Shook, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
- The Beach of Falesa, by Robert Louis Stevenson (PDF in the UK)
- Red Ruth: The Birth of Universal Brotherhood (different titles on different pages; Kansas City, MO: Burton Pub. Co., c1916), by Anna Ratner Shapiro, illust. by Carl S. Junge (page images at HathiTrust)
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