South America -- Description and travel
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- Argentina -- Description and travel
- Bolivia -- Description and travel
- Chile -- Description and travel
- Colombia -- Description and travel
- Ecuador -- Description and travel
- Guyana -- Description and travel
- Peru -- Description and travel
- Suriname -- Description and travel
- Venezuela -- Description and travel
- South America -- Description and travel -- 1951-1980
- South America -- Description and travel -- 1981-
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China to Peru over the Andes: A Journey Through South America (London: S. Low, Marston, and co., ca. 1894), by Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent, contrib. by C. E. Howard Vincent (multiple formats at archive.org)- Deck and Port: or, Incidents of a Cruise in the United States Frigate Congress to California; with Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco (New York: A. S. Barnes; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1850), by Walter Colton (page images at MOA)
- Gerstäcker's Travels, by Friedrich Gerstäcker (HTML at LOC)
- Journael van de Reis Naar Zuid-Amerika (1598-1601) (in Dutch; 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1918), by Hendrick Ottsen, contrib. by J. W. Ijzerman
- 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
- South America: Observations and Impressions (new edition, corrected and revised; New York: MacMillan, 1914), by James Bryce
- The South American Tour (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), by Annie S. Peck (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Through Five Republics on Horseback: Being An Account of Many Wanderings in South America, by George Whitfield Ray (Gutenberg text)
- 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)
- The Two Americas: An Account of Sport and Travel, with Notes on Men and Manners in North and South America, by Rose Lambart Price (page images at MOA)
- A Voyage to South America and Buenos Aires, the City Beautiful (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., 1916), by Ida M. Cappeau
- What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and At the Hawaiian Islands (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1865), by H. Willis Baxley
- Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure, by Fritz W. Up de Graff (HTML at Virginia)
- Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy (new edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by Charles Darwin
- Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle (illustrated edition; London: John Murray, 1890), by Charles Darwin (illustrated HTML and page images at Charles Darwin Online)
- A Tale of Two Oceans, A New Story by an Old Californian: An Account of a Voyage from Philadelphia to San Francisco, Around Cape Horn, Years 1849-50, Calling at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and at Juan Fernandez, in the South Pacific (San Francisco: Press of Eastman and Co., 1893), by E. I. Barra
- A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Theodore Roosevelt
- 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
- Our American Neighbors (1891), by Fanny E. Coe, ed. by Larkin Dunton (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)
- Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1908), by Richard Spruce, ed. by Alfred Russel Wallace
- An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies (4 volumes; London: Printed for the editor et al., 1795), by William Winterbotham
- An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for the compiler, 1799), by William Winterbotham (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West Indies (4 volumes; New York: Printed by Tiebout and O'Brien for J. Reid, 1796), by William Winterbotham
- An Account of a Voyage Up the River de la Plata, and Thence Over Land to Peru: With Observations on the Inhabitants, as Well as Indians and Spaniards; the Cities, Commerce, Fertility, and Riches of That Part of America (London: Printed for S. Buckley, 1698), by Acarete du Biscay (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- The Pampas and Andes: A Thousand Miles' Walk Across South America (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869), by Nathaniel H. Bishop, contrib. by Edward A. Samuels (HTML at ibiblio.org)
- The Pampas and Andes: A Thousand Miles' Walk Across South America (third edition, illustrated; Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1870), by Nathaniel H. Bishop, contrib. by Edward A. Samuels
- El Tempe Arjentino: ó, El Delta de los Rios Uruguay, Paraná y Plata, Con un Discurso Preliminar del A. Magariños Cervantes, y Seguido de los Consejos de Oro Sobre la Educacion (5th edition, in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Imp. Americana, 1870), by Marcos Sastre, contrib. by Alejandro Magariños Cervantes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Journael van de Reis Naar Zuid-Amerika (1598-1601) (in Dutch; 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1918), by Hendrick Ottsen, contrib. by J. W. Ijzerman
- Reise in den Andes von Chile und Argentinien (in German; Berlin: Gebruder Paetel, 1888), by Paul Güssfeldt
- A Search for the Apex of America: High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia, Including the Conquest of Huascarán; With Some Observations on the Country and People Below (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1911), by Annie S. Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chile (Washington, DC: Pan American Union, reprinted 1969), by Merri Holway (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Journal of a Residence in Chile, During the Year 1822; and a Voyage From Chile to Brazil in 1823 (1824), by Maria Callcott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Pampas and Andes: A Thousand Miles' Walk Across South America (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869), by Nathaniel H. Bishop, contrib. by Edward A. Samuels (HTML at ibiblio.org)
- The Pampas and Andes: A Thousand Miles' Walk Across South America (third edition, illustrated; Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1870), by Nathaniel H. Bishop, contrib. by Edward A. Samuels
- Reise in den Andes von Chile und Argentinien (in German; Berlin: Gebruder Paetel, 1888), by Paul Güssfeldt
- Casual Wanderings in Ecuador (New York and London: The Century Co., 1923), by Blair Niles, illust. by Robert L. Niles
- Wanderings in South America, by Charles Waterton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Our Search for a Wilderness: An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1910), by Blair Niles and William Beebe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru, by Hiram Bingham
- Pérégrinations d'une Paria (1833-1834) (2 volumes, in French; Paris: A. Bertrand, 1838), by Flora Tristan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Putumayo, the Devil's Paradise: Travels in the Peruvian Amazon Region and an Account of the Atrocities Committed Upon the Indians Therein (London and Leipzig: T. F. Unwin, 1913), by W. E. Hardenburg, ed. by C. Reginald Enock, contrib. by Roger Casement
- A Search for the Apex of America: High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia, Including the Conquest of Huascarán; With Some Observations on the Country and People Below (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1911), by Annie S. Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
- Travels in Peru, During the Years 1838-1842, On the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Corderillas and the Andes, Into the Primeval Forests (London: D. Bogue, ca. 1847), by Johann Jakob von Tschudi, trans. by Thomasina Ross (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in Peru, During the Years 1838-1842, On the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Corderillas and the Andes, Into the Primeval Forests (new edition; New York: G.P. Putnam, 1852), by Johann Jakob von Tschudi, trans. by Thomasina Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
- Travels in Peru, During the Years 1838-1842, On the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Corderillas and the Andes, Into the Primeval Forests (new edition; New York: A.S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), by Johann Jakob von Tschudi, trans. by Thomasina Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
- Across Unknown South America (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913), by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Oasis de Arte (in Spanish; Paris: Casa Editorial Garnier Hermanos, ca. 1910), by Zoila Aurora Cáceres, contrib. by Rubén Darío (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Peru Illustrated: or, Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas (New York: Hurst and Co., c1877), by E. G. Squier
- Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas (New York: Harper and Bros., 1877), by E. G. Squier (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850, by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (page images at MOA)
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