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Broader terms:Related term:Narrower terms:- Explorers -- Africa
- Explorers -- America
- Explorers -- Arctic regions
- Explorers -- Australia
- Explorers -- Biography
- Explorers -- Canada
- Explorers -- Fiction
- Explorers -- France
- Explorers -- Great Britain
- Explorers -- Juvenile fiction
- Explorers -- Juvenile literature
- Explorers -- Netherlands
- Explorers -- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Explorers -- Northwest, Canadian
- Explorers -- Pacific Area
- Explorers -- Polar regions
- Explorers -- Portugal
- Explorers -- Spain
- Explorers -- Sweden
- Explorers -- United States
- Explorers -- West (U.S.)
- Explorers in literature
- Women explorers
- Back, George, 1796-1878
- Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821-1893
- Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946
- Bartram, John, 1699-1777
- Benzoni, Girolamo, 1519-1572?
- Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de, 1796-1878
- Bridger, Jim, 1804-1881
- Burnes, Alexander, Sir, 1805-1841
- Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
- Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957
- Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557
- Champlain, Samuel de, 1574-1635
- Columbus, Christopher
- De Long, George W. (George Washington), 1844-1881
- Dewart, Gilbert, 1932-
- Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814
- Franklin, John, 1786-1847
- Fraser, Simon, 1776-1862
- Grenfell, George, 1849-1906
- Henry, Infante of Portugal, 1394-1460
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955
- James, Thomas, 1593?-1635?
- Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700
- Kane, Paul, 1810-1871
- Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900
- La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788
- Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
- Livingstone, David, 1813-1873
- Mackenzie, Alexander, 1764-1820
- Marquette, Jacques, 1637-1675
- Niebuhr, Carsten, 1733-1815
- Nordenskiöld, A. E. (Adolf Erik), 1832-1901
- Ojeda, Alonso de, approximately 1466-approximately 1515
- Park, Mungo, 1771-1806
- Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534
- Pizarro, Francisco, approximately 1475-1541
- Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
- Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
- Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
- Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892
- Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912
- Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922
- Smith, Benjamin Leigh, 1828-1913
- Speke, John Hanning, 1827-1864
- Thompson, David, 1770-1857
- Vancouver, George, 1757-1798
- Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
- Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877
- Willoughby, Hugh, -1554
- Discoverers
- Navigators
- Voyagers
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Explorers and Travellers (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894), by A. W. Greely (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)- The Explorers of Australia, and Their Life-Work (1908), by Ernest Favenc
- The Last Secrets: The Final Mysteries of Exploration (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1923), by John Buchan
- Notable Voyagers, by William Henry Giles Kingston and Henry Frith (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- 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
- Breaking the Record: The Story of Three Arctic Expeditions (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by M. Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Great African Travellers, from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Heroes of the Dark Continent, by James W. Buel (illustrated HTML with commentary at erbzine.com)
- The Centaurians: A Novel (New York: Broadway Publishing Co., c1911), by Biagi (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fortitude, by Hugh Walpole (Gutenberg text)
- South of the Sunset: An Interpretation of Sacajawea, the Indian Girl That Accompanied Lewis and Clark (New York: R. R. Wilson, 1936), by Claire Warner Churchill, illust. by Agnes C. Lehman (page images at HathiTrust)
- 1492, by Mary Johnston (Gutenberg text)
- The Magnificent Adventure: Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Arthur Ignatius Keller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Rezánov, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, contrib. by William Marion Reedy (Gutenberg text)
- Agents et Voyageurs Français au Maroc, 1530-1660 (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1911), by Henry Castries
- With Carson and Frémont (second edition; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1913), by Edwin L. Sabin, illust. by Charles H. Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Stories of Great American Scouts: Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Lewis and Clark, Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill (Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., c1924), by John Jay Jones (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Conquerors of the Sea (Racine, WI: Whitman Pub. Co., 1924), by Jerome Wiechers, illust. by Ray Gleason (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators (New York: The Century Co., 1916), by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Sea Road to the Indies: An Account of the Voyages and Exploits of the Portuguese Navigators, Together With the Life and Times of Dom Vasco da Gama, Capitão-Mór, Viceroy of India and Count of Vidigueira (New York: Macmillan, 1950), by Henry H. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Lusiad: or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem (London: G. Bell, 1877), by Luís de Camões, ed. by Edward Richmond Hodges, trans. by William Julius Mickle (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)
- 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
- Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1875), by Samuel White Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Eight Years Wanderings in Ceylon (Lovell's Library Vol. 5 #233; New York: J.W. Lovell Co., 1883), by Samuel White Baker
- Great Explorations in the Wilds of Africa (Toronto: A. H. Hovey and Co., 1886), ed. by J. T. Headley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon, by Samuel White Baker
- The Last Voyage of the Karluk, Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1916), by Bob Bartlett and Ralph T. Hale
- The Last Voyage of the Karluk, Flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16 (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, c1916), by Bob Bartlett and Ralph T. Hale
- Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall; With Notices of Their Botanical Contemporaries (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1849), by William Darlington, contrib. by Peter Collinson
- Il Primo Viaggio Intorno al Globo di Antonio Pigafetta, e le Sue Regole sull'Arte del Navigare; Giraloamo Benzoni e la Sua Historia del Mondo Nuovo (in Italian; Rome: Auspice il Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, 1894), by Antonio Pigafetta, ed. by Andrea Da Mosto, contrib. by Marco Allegri
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West (a volume from the Works of Washington Irving; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, by Washington Irving
- Cabool: A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in That City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8 (from the second edition; Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1843), by Alexander Burnes
- The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1893), by Isabel Burton
- The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton (London: H. S. Nichols, 1896), by Georgiana M. Stisted (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Falconry in the Valley of the Indus (first edition; London: John van Voorst, 1852), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF page images at burtoniana.org)
- The Land of Midian (Revisited) (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1879), by Richard Francis Burton
- The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton (2 volumes; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1897), by Isabel Burton and W. H. Wilkins
- The Life of Sir Richard Burton, by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg text)
- Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, by Richard Francis Burton, ed. by Isabel Burton
- Dreamers of Empire (New York: F. A. Stokes, 1929), by Achmed Abdullah and Compton Pakenham, illust. by B. K. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
- The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1914), by Stephen Leacock (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier (Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1915), by Stephen Leacock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Expedition of the Sieur De Champlain Against the Onondagas in 1615: Comprising an Inquiry Into the Route of the Expedition, and the Location of the Iroquois Fort Which Was Besieged (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1885), by Orsamus Holmes Marshall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain, by Charles W. Colby (Gutenberg text)
- Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, by Samuel de Champlain, trans. by Charles Pomeroy Otis, contrib. by Edmund F. Slafter
- Pioneers of France in the New World, by Francis Parkman (Gutenberg text)
- Christopher Columbus: A Latter-Day Saint Perspective (1992), by Arnold K. Garr (HTML at BYU)
- Columbus in the Capitol (Quincentenary edition; Washington: GPO, 1992), ed. by Ann Baldessarini Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Christopher Columbus (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., c1941), by Daniel Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
- Christopher Columbus, by Mildred Stapley Byne (Gutenberg text)
- Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery, by Filson Young (Gutenberg text)
- A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap
- The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus: To Which Are Added Those of His Companions (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v3-5; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1861), by Washington Irving
- The Life of Christopher Columbus: From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time, by Edward Everett Hale (Gutenberg text)
- The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral, by Elbridge S. Brooks (Gutenberg text)
- As Duas Americas (second edition, in Portuguese; Lisbon: J. Bastos, 1900), by Candido Costa, illust. by António Ramalho
- Unpublished Orations, by John Fiske (HTML at elfinspell.com)
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