Scientific expeditions
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Scientific expeditions -- Africa
- Scientific expeditions -- Africa, Central
- Scientific expeditions -- Africa, East
- Scientific expeditions -- Antarctica
- Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions
- Scientific expeditions -- Atlantic Ocean
- Scientific expeditions -- California
- Scientific expeditions -- Four Corners Region
- Scientific expeditions -- Great Basin
- Scientific expeditions -- North Atlantic Ocean
- Scientific expeditions -- Polar regions
- Ethnological expeditions
- Medical expeditions
- Safaris
- Expeditions, Scientific
- Scientific voyages
- Travels
- Voyages, Scientific
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Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia (4 volumes (5th volume either never published or very rare)), by Hermann Rudolph Alfred von Schlagintweit-Sakunlunski, Adolf von Schlagintweit, and Robert von Schlagintweit (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)- Missions de Gironcourt en Afrique Occidentale, 1908/1909 - 1911/1912: Documents Scientifiques (in French; Paris: Société de Géographie, 1920), by G. de Gironcourt
- Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland, ed. by Thomasina Ross
- The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt: Being a Condensed Narrative of His Journeys in the Equinoctial Regions of America, and in Asiatic Russia, Together With Analysis of His More Important Investigations (New York: Harper and Bros., 1869), by Alexander von Humboldt, ed. by William MacGillivray (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narrative of an Expedition to Explore the River Zaire, Usually Called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, Under the Direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R. N.; To Which is Added, The Journal of Professor Smith (London: J. Murray, 1818), by James Hingston Tuckey, contrib. by Christen Smith
- The Giraffe Hunters, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Hunting the Lions: or, The Land of the Negro, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
- Green Hills of Africa (c1935), by Ernest Hemingway (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- 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)
- Through Unknown African Countries: The First Expedition from Somaliland to Lake Rudolf (London and New York: E. Arnold, 1897), by Arthur Donaldson Smith, contrib. by Albert C. L. G. Günther, Eugène Simon, R. I. Pocock, W. J. Holland, J. W. Gregory, G. C. Crick, Stewart Culin, and Karl Jordan (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- Antarctic Comrades: An American With the Russians in Antarctica (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Gilbert Dewart (PDF at Ohio State)
- Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22 (third edition; London: J. Murray, 1824), by John Franklin and John Richardson
- Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827 (London: J. Murray, 1828), by John Franklin and John Richardson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835 (Paris: A and W. Calignani, 1836), by George Back and John Richardson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Arctic Ocean in 1833, 1834 and 1835, Under the Command of Capt. Back, R.N (London: R. Bentley, 1836), by Richard King
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences at a Reception Given to the Captain and Officers of the Jeannette Search Expedition (San Francisco, 1881), by California Academy of Sciences (page images at LOC)
- Allan Hancock Atlantic Expedition (full serial archives)
- The Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition, 1876-1878 (Oslo: Grøndahl and Søn, 1882), by Henrik Mohn, contrib. by C. Wille (page images and HTML in Iceland)
- Up and Down California in 1860-1864, by William Henry Brewer, ed. by Francis P. Farquhar (HTML at LOC)
- Exploring Desert Stone: John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2010), by Steven K. Madsen
- A Route for the Overland Stage: James H. Simpson's 1859 Trail Across the Great Basin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Jesse G. Petersen, contrib. by David L. Bigler (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- White Indians of Darien (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1934), by Richard Oglesby Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Peninsula of Yucatan: Medical, Biological, Meteorological and Sociological Studies (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #431; 1933), ed. by George Cheever Shattuck (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Voyages and travels- Flying Visits (electronic edition; contents differ slightly from print edition; 2011), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)
- Pole to Pole with Michael Palin (c1992), by Michael Palin, illust. by Basil Pao (illustrated HTML at commentary in the UK)
- Give Me My Own God (New York: H. C. Kinsey and Co., 1936), by Aimee Semple McPherson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tinkerbelle: The Story of the Smallest Boat Ever to Cross the Atlantic Nonstop (originally published 1966), by Robert Manry (page images at ebrary.com)
- Worlds Within Worlds (c1928), by Stella Benson (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Gifts of Fortune, and Hints For Those About to Travel (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1926), by H. M. Tomlinson (page images at HathiTrust)
- &c. (London: T. Bosworth, 1853), by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Admiral's Wife in the Making, 1860-1903 (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1917), by Ida Margaret Graves Poore
- All the World Over (2 volumes; London: T. Cook and Son, Hodder and Stoughton, 1875-1876), ed. by Edwin Hodder (page images at HathiTrust)
- Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Aldous Huxley (page images at HathiTrust)
- An American Merchant in Europe, Asia, and Australia, by George Francis Train (page images at MOA)
- Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel (London and Belfast: W. Mullan and son, 1879), by Isabel Burton
- At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-Book of Life, Scenery, and Men, by Bayard Taylor (page images at MOA)
- Celebrated Travels and Travellers (3 volumes; London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880-1882), by Jules Verne, trans. by Dora Leigh and N. D'Anvers, illust. by Léon Benett, Paul Philippoteaux, Charles Émile Matthis, and E. Morieu
- Chambliss' Diary: or, Society As It Really Is, by William H. Chambliss (PDF and XML at loc.gov)
- The Cruise of the "Alerte": The Narrative of a Search for Treasure on the Desert Island of Trinidad, by E. F. Knight (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- From Paris to New York By Land (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, ca. 1904), by Harry De Windt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People (abridged and edited translation; London et al.: Macmillan, 1914), by Sven Anders Hedin (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- 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)
- From Sea to Sea, and Other Sketches; Letters of Travel (service edition, 4 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1914), by Rudyard Kipling
- A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery and Commerce, By Sea and Land, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time (18 volumes; Edinburgh; London: W. Blackwood; T. Cadell, 1824), by Robert Kerr, contrib. by William Stevenson (text and page images at Gutenberg and archive.org)
- Hard Life in the Colonies, and Other Experiences by Sea and Land, Now First Printed, Compiled From Private Letters (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), ed. by Catherine Carlyon Jenkyns, contrib. by Arthur Cardew Jenkins, Gilbert Chilcott Jenkins, and Haln Killegrew Dunbar (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Here, There and Everywhere, by Frederic Hamilton (Gutenberg text)
- High Places of Sacrifice (1922), by Clara Huston Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Highlights of Foreign Travel: A Memorable Journey to Palestine, Egypt, Italy, and the Battle Front in France (New York: Brentano's, c1925), by Henry Howard Harper, illust. by Haydon Jones (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- A Landlubber's Log of His Voyage Around Cape Horn (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1883), by Morton MacMichael (page images at Mystic Seaport)
- The Little World (c1925), by Stella Benson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- 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 (New York: Harper and Bros., 1864), by C. I. Johnstone
- Memories of the Sea (London: E. Arnold, 1913), by C. C. Penrose Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
- Newfoundland to Cochin, China, By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Notable Voyagers, by William Henry Giles Kingston and Henry Frith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Notes of a Nomad (London: Hutchinson and co., 1918), by Lady Jephson
- Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay (1841), by Emma Roberts (Gutenberg text)
- Pilgrims to the Isles of Penance: Orchid Gathering in the East (London: John Long, c1911), by Violet Clifton (page images at Google; US access only)
- Recollections of an Admirals' Wife, 1903-1916 (second edition; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1916), by Ida Margaret Graves Poore (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Round the Horn Before the Mast (London: J. Murray, 1915), by Basil Lubbock
- Travels and Experiences in Other Lands (Anderson, IN: Gospel Trumpet Co., 1905), by E. E. Byrum (illustrated HTML and pag images at Indiana)
- Trifles and Travels (London: J. Murray, 1923), by Arthur Keyser (page images at HathiTrust)
- Two Lady Tramps Abroad: A Compilation of Letters Descriptive of Nearly a Year's Travel in India, Asia Minor, Egypt, the Holy Land, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, England, Ireland and Scotland (Flushing, NY: Evening Journal Press, 1881), by Mary Straiton and Emma Straiton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1860 (Cambridge and London: Macmillan and Co., 1861), by Francis Galton
- The Voyage of the "Wanderer", From the Journals and Letters of C. and S. Lambert (London: Macmillan and Co., 1883), by Charles Joseph Lambert and Susan Bath Lambert, ed. by Gerald Young, illust. by R. T. Pritchett
- Voyagers' Tales, From the Collections of Richard Hakluyt, by Richard Hakluyt, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
- Voyages and Commercial Enterprises of the Sons of New England (New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1855), by Richard J. Cleveland (page images at Mystic Seaport)
- Voyages and Travels, Ancient and Modern (HTML at Bartleby)
- Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage (London: Cassell and Co., 1892), by Richard Hakluyt (Gutenberg text)
- The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies, With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies During the Seventeenth Century, Preserved in the India Office; and the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to Seek the North-West Passage (London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1877), ed. by Clements R. Markham
- A Winter Journey to the Western Islands, Madeira, Gibraltar, Italy, Egypt, the Holy Land, Turkey, and Greece (Philadelphia: Wagstaff, 1909), by Clara Biddle Davis and Seymour Davis
- Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society (partial serial archives)
- 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)
- Traveling in Mark Twain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987), by Richard Bridgman (HTML at UC Press)
- The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East (second edition, 2 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1875), by Marco Polo, ed. by Henry Yule (page images at HathiTrust)
- Early Australian Voyages, by John Pinkerton (Gutenberg text)
- In the Trades, the Tropics, and the Roaring Forties (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1885), by Annie Brassey, illust. by G. Pearson, J. Cooper, and R. T. Pritchett (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jack in the Forecastle: or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale, by John Sherburne Sleeper (Gutenberg text)
- Letters of Travel (1892-1913) (Dominions edition, 1920), by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text)
- The Life and Surprising Adventures of Mary Ann Talbot, in the Name of John Taylor (1809), by Mary Ann Talbot, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
- The Log of an Ancient Mariner: Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Edgar Wakeman (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1878), by Edgar Wakeman, ed. by Minnie Wakeman-Curtis (page images at Mystic Seaport)
- The Log of the Empire State, by Geneve L. A. Shaffer
- Memories (Edinburgh and London: Blackwood, 1904), by C. F. Gordon Cumming (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Mr. Oseba's Last Discovery (Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Times Co., 1904), by George W. Bell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean, in the Years 1829, 1830, 1831 (New York: J. and J. Harper, 1833), by Abby Jane Morrell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands (London et al: Thomas Nelson and Co., 1879) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Tracks of a Rolling Stone (second edition; London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1905), by Henry J. Coke
- Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, etc. etc. (second edition; London: G. Routledge, 1840), by James Holman (page images at Google)
- The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition (2 volumes), by Marco Polo, ed. by Henry Yule and Henri Cordier
- The Venturesome Voyages of Captain John Voss, by John Claus Voss (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Voyage of the Destroyer from New York to Brazil, by Joshua Slocum (illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org)
- The Voyages and Adventures of Vasco da Gama (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1895), by George M. Towle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America (London: T. De La Rue and Co., 1880), by Richard Hakluyt, ed. by Edward John Payne (multiple formats at archive.org)
- I Fly for News (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1932), by Larry Rue (page images at HathiTrust)
- The History of Yaballaha III, Nestorian Patriarch, and of His Vicar, Bar Sauma, Mongol Ambassador to the Frankish Courts at the End of the Thirteenth Century, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1927), ed. by James A. Montgomery (page images at HathiTrust)
- The History of Rabban Sawma and Mar Yahbh-Allaha, trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (PDF at In Parentheses)
- The Innocents Abroad (Hartford: American Publishing Co., et al., 1869), by Mark Twain
- La Déportation de 1871: Souvenirs d'un Évadé de Nouméa (in French; Paris: G. Charpentier et cie, 1889), by Achille Ballière (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- The Travels of Ibn Batūta;: Translated from the Abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies Preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, With Notes Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiques, &c Occurring Throughout the Work (London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829), by Ibn Batuta, ed. by Samuel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voyage of the Liberdade (Boston: Robinson and Stephenson, 1890), by Joshua Slocum (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- A Voyage to Terra Australis (2 volumes, 1814), by Matthew Flinders
- The Beautiful Lady Craven: The Original Memoirs of Elizabeth, Baroness Craven, Afterwards Margravine of Anspach and Bayreuth and Princess Berkeley of the Holy Roman Empire (2 volumes; London and New York: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockburn, 1914), by Elizabeth Craven, ed. by Alexander Meyrick Broadley and Lewis Melville
- From the Hebrides to the Himalayas: A Sketch of Eighteen Months' Wanderings in Western Isles and Eastern Highlands (2 volumes; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1876), by C. F. Gordon Cumming
- The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela: Critical Text, Translation and Commentary (London: H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1907), by Benjamin of Tudela, ed. by Marcus N. Adler
- The Lieutenant and Commander: Being Autobiographical Sketches of His Own Career, From Fragments of Voyages and Travels (London: Bell and Daldy, 1862), by Basil Hall (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (2 volumes in 1; Boston: I. Knapp, 1837), by Olaudah Equiano
- The Log of the Snark (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Charmian London (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Magician's Tour, Up and Down and Round About the Earth: Being the Life and Adventures of the American Nostradamus, Harry Kellar (Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry and Co., 1890), by Harry Kellar (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, Written By Herself (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1826), by Elizabeth Craven
- Narrative of a Journey Overland From England, by the Continent of Europe, Egypt, and the Red Sea, to India: Including a Residence There, and Voyage Home, in the Years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by Anne Elwood
- 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)
- The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1897), by Isabel Burton and W. H. Wilkins (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Round Cape Horn: Voyage of the Passenger-Ship James W. Paige, From Maine to California in the Year 1852 (Bangor: Press of O. F. and W. H. Knowles, 1878), by J. Lamson (page images at Mystic Seaport)
- The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, Through Turky, Into Persia and the East-Indies, For the Space of Forty Years (London: Printed by W. Godbid for R. Littlebury and M. Pitt, 1677), by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, trans. by John Phillips (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana (HTML at Bartleby)
- Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, contrib. by Richard Henry Dana
- Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, contrib. by Homer Eaton Keyes (Gutenberg text)
- A Voyage Round the World, by Gustavus Hines (page images at MOA)
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