Voyages to the Pacific CoastHere are entered works on sea voyages from the eastern part of the United States, around Cape Horn or across the Isthmus of Panama, primarily from the time of gold discovery until the completion of the transcontinental railroads. See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.
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Filed under: Voyages to the Pacific Coast Around the Horn in '49, by Hartford Union Mining and Trading Company (HTML at LOC) A Forty-Niner Speaks, by Hiram Dwight Pierce (HTML at LOC) The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction (Baltimore: Pub. for the author, 1855), by Hinton Rowan Helper Sketches of Travels in South America, Mexico and California, by L. M. Schaeffer (HTML at LOC) 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 One Man's Gold: The Letters and Journal of a Forty-Niner (1930), by Enos Christman, ed. by Florence Morrow Christman (PDF and XML at loc.gov) California Gold Rush Merchant, by Stephen Chapin Davis (HTML at LOC) Capt. J. D. Winchester's Experience on a Voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan Gold Fields (Salem, MA: Newcomb and Gauss, printers, 1900), by James D. Winchester (page images at Mystic Seaport) Diary of a Physician in California, by James L. Tyson (HTML at LOC) Records of a California Family, by Lewis C. Gunn and Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn, ed. by Anna Lee Marston (HTML at LOC) Reminiscence of George K. Goodwin (1881), by George K. Goodwin (page images at HathiTrust) Bound for Sacramento, by Carl Meyer (HTML at LOC) California As I Saw It, by William S. M'Collum (HTML at LOC) California Illustrated; Including a Description of the Panama and Nicarague Routes (New York: W. Holdredge, 1852), by J. M. Letts 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) Eldorado: or, Adventures in the Path of Empire (two volumes), by Bayard Taylor (page images at MOA) From East Prussia to the Golden Gate, by Frank Lecouvreur (HTML at LOC) Incidents on Land and Water: or, Four Years on the Pacific Coast, by Mrs. D. B. Bates Life at Puget Sound, With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California (1884), by Caroline C. Leighton (JavaScript-dependent page images at Legacy Washington) Life on the Plains of the Pacific: Oregon, Its History, Condition and Prospects, Containing a Description of the Geography, Climate and Productions, with Personal Adventures Among the Indians During a Residence of the Author on the Plains Bordering the Pacific While Connected with the Oregon Mission, Embracing Extended Notes of a Voyage Around the World (Buffalo: G. H. Derby and Co., 1851), by Gustavus Hines (multiple formats at archive.org) Life on the Plains of the Pacific: Oregon, Its History, Condition and Prospects, Containing a Description of the Geography, Climate and Productions, with Personal Adventures Among the Indians During a Residence of the Author on the Plains Bordering the Pacific While Connected with the Oregon Mission, Embracing Extended Notes of a Voyage Around the World (Buffalo: G. H. Derby and Co.; Chicago: Hewson and Denison, 1852), by Gustavus Hines (page images at HathiTrust) 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) Sights in the Gold Region, and Scenes by the Way, by Theodore T. Johnson (HTML at LOC) Sketch of a Three Years Travell in South America, California and Mexico, by Eugene Ring (HTML at Wayback Machine) A Year of American Travel, by Jessie Benton Frémont (HTML at LOC) The Panama Route, 1848-1869 (University of California Publications in History v29; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1943), by John Haskell Kemble (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814: or, The First American Settlement on the Pacific (New York: Redfield, 1854), by Gabriel Franchère, trans. by J. V. Huntington Notes of a Voyage to California via Cape Horn, by Samuel C. Upham (HTML at LOC) Relation d'un Voyage à la Côte du Nord-Ouest de l'Amérique Septentrionale, dans les Années 1810, 11, 12, 13, et 14 (in French; Montréal: Impr. de C. B. Pasteur, 1820), by Gabriel Franchère (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) The Ice Cave: A Woman's Adventures From the Mojave to the Antarctic (Madison: Terrace Books, University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org) Give Me My Own God (New York: H. C. Kinsey and Co., 1936), by Aimee Semple McPherson (page images at HathiTrust) My Great, Wide, Beautiful World (New York: Macmillan, 1936), by Juanita Harrison and Mildred Morris (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) Five Travel Scripts Commonly Attributed to Edward Ward: Reproduced From the Earliest Editions Extant, With a Bibliographical Note (Facsimile Text Society series 1 v7; New York: Columbia University Press, 1933), by Edward Ward, ed. by Howard W. Troyer (page images at HathiTrust) Worlds Within Worlds (c1928), by Stella Benson (HTML at Gutenberg Canada) 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) The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday (London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, c1922), by Edmund Blunden 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 Japan to Granada: Sketches of Observation and Inquiry in a Tour Round the World in 1887-8 (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1889), by James H. Chapin 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 From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel (1-volume edition; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Rudyard Kipling (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea: The Narrative of a Journey, in 1890 and 1891, Across Siberia, Mongolia, the Gobi Desert, and North China (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1892), by Julius M. Price (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) 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 Journey Over Land to India, Partly by a Route Never Gone Before by Any European (3 parts in 1 volume; London: Printed for Cullen and Co., 1795), by Donald Campbell 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 Looking Seaward Again (London: W. Scott Pub. Co., 1907), by Walter Runciman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) 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) George, Third Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605), His Life and His Voyages: A Study From Original Documents (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1920), by George C. Williamson The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators (New York: The Century Co., 1916), by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) Hunting Memories of Many Lands (enlarged and revised edition; London: T. F. Unwin Ltd., 1925), by Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde (page images at HathiTrust) 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) Ten Years' Travel Around the World: or From Land to Land, Isle to Isle and Sea to Sea (West Milton, OH: Morning Star Pub. Co., 1885), by Sarah Furnas Wells, contrib. by E. J. Scott 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 (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897), by Isabel Burton and W. H. Wilkins 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 (Gutenberg text) 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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