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A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the command of his Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern hemisphere. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780 / vol. I and II written by James Cook, vol. III by James King.
Cook, James, 1728-1779.Date: 1785- Books
Inca land : explorations in the highlands of Peru / by Hiram Bingham.
Bingham, Hiram, 1875-1956.Date: 1922- Books
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Proceedings of the expedition to explore the northern coast of Africa, from Tripoly eastward; in MDCCCXXI and MDCCCXXII. Comprehending an account of the greater Syrtis and Cyrenaica; and of the ancient cities composing the Pentapolis / By Captain F.W. Beechey ... and H.W. Beechey.
Beechey, Frederick William, 1796-1856.Date: 1828- Books
A new discovery of a vast country in America extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico ... With a description of the Great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals: also, the manners, customs, and languages, of the several native Indians; and the advantage of commerce with those different nations. With a continuation: giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. The taking of Quebec by the English; with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan. Both parts illustrated with maps and figures, and dedicated to his Majesty K. William / By L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland. To which is added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.
Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century.Date: 1698- Books
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A voyage round the world; but more particulary to the North-West coast of America. Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon / [Edited] by Captain George Dixon. [Anon].
Beresford, William, active 1788.Date: 1789- Books
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Introduccion à la historia natural de la Provincia de Cochabamba : estudios inéditos del esplorador Don Tadeo Haënke / Compilados y anotados por Belisario Diaz Romero y J. Arturo Ballivián.
Haenke, Thaddäus, 1761-1816 or 1817.Date: 1900- Books
The first crossing of Greenland / by Fridtjof Nansen ; translated from the Norwegian by Hubert Majendie Gepp ; with maps and numerous illustrations.
Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930.Date: 1890- Books
Explorations of the highlands of the Brazil : with a full account of the gold and diamond mines ; also, canoeing down 1500 miles of the great river São Francisco, from Sabará to the sea / by Captain Richard F. Burton.
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.Date: 1869- Books
Historia general y natural de las Indias, islas y tierrafirme del mar océano / por el capitan Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, primer cronista del Nueva mundo ; publícala la Real academia de la historia, cotejada con el códice original, enriquecida con las enmiendas y adiciones del autor, é ilustrada con la vida y el juicio de las obras del mismo por D. José Amador de los Rios.
Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557.Date: 1851-1855- Books
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[America]. Pt. 7. Latin] Americae pars VII. Vera et ivcvnda descriptio praecipvarvm qvarvndam Indiae Occidentalis regionum & insularum, quae ... / ab Vlrico Fabro ... perlustratae & ab eodem summa diligentia consignatae fuerunt, cum annotatione historiarum & rerum memorabilium, quae tota illa nauigatione vsque ad reditum eius in Germaniam contigerunt. Correctivs et tersivs qvam antehac edita, & imaginibus ornata, sumptu I.T. de Bry viduae & haeredum.
Date: 1625- Books
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Journal of an overland expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington ... during the years 1844-1845 / By Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt.
Leichhardt, Ludwig, 1813-1848.Date: 1847- Books
Through the Brazilian wilderness : with illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition / by Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.Date: 1914- Books
Among wild tribes of the Amazons : an account of exploration & adventure on the mighty Amazon & its confluents, with descriptions of the savage head-hunting & anthropophagous tribes inhabiting their banks / by Charles W. Domville-Fife.
Domville-Fife, Charles W. (Charles William), 1886-Date: 1925- Books
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Spiegazione e traduzione dei xiv quadri relativi alle isole di Salibaboo, Talaor, Sanguey, Nanuse, Mindanao, Celebes, Borneo, Bahalatolis, Tambisan, Sulu, Toolyan, e Labuan / [Carlos Cuarteron y Fernandez].
Cuarteron y Fernandez, Carlos.Date: 1855- Books
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Chronica do descobrimento e conquisita de Guiné / escrita por mandado de elrei D. Affonso V, sob a direcção scrientifica, e segundo as instrucções do illustre Infante D. Henrique, pelo chronista Gomes Eannes de Azurara; fielmente trasladada do manuscrito original contemporaneo, que se conserva na Bibliotheca Real de Pariz, e dada pela primeira vez á luz per diligencia do Visconde da Carreira; precedida de uma introducção, e illustrada com algumas notas, pelo visconde de Santarem. E seguida d'um glossario das palavras e phrases antiquadas e obsoletas.
Zurara, Gomes Eanes de, approximately 1410-1473 or 1474.Date: 1841- Books
Viaggio di Spizberga ò Gronlanda fatto da Federico Martens amburghese l'anno 1671. Oue [sic] si descriuono que' remotissimi paesi del settenrione sotto gli 81. gradi, ne' quali soggiorna il sole per lo spazio di trè mesi intieri, Con vna copiosa relazione di quell' aggiacciato clima, e de gli vccelli, quadrupedi, pesci, e piante rare, che vi nascono, colla descritione delle balene, e lor pesca / Portato nuouamente dalla lingua alemana nell' italiana dal sig. Iacopo Rautenfels.
Martens, Friedrich, 1635-1699.Date: 1680- Books
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Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy, captain Fifth infantry U.S. Army ; assisted by George B. McClellan, brevet captain U.S. engineers ; with reports on the natural history of the country and numerous illustrations.
United States. War Department.Date: 1854- Books
Jungle paths and Inca ruins : the record of an expedition / by William Montgomery McGovern.
McGovern, William Montgomery, 1897-1964.Date: 1927- Books
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Mystery cities : exploration and adventure in Lubaantun / by Thomas Gann.
Gann, Thomas William Francis, 1867-1938.Date: [1925]- Books
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Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 / By Sir John Ross ... Including the reports of ... Captain James Clark Ross ... and the discovery of the northern magnetic pole.
Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856.Date: 1835- Books
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Historical account of discoveries and travels in Asia, from the earliest ages to the present time / By Hugh Murray.
Murray, Hugh, 1779-1846.Date: 1820- Books
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Expedition nach Central- und Südamerika / Paul Preuss ; 1899/1900.
Preuss, Paul.Date: 1901- Books
Jonathan Carver's travels through America, 1766-1768 : an eighteenth-century explorer's account of uncharted America / edited and with an introduction by Norman Gelb.
Date: [1993], ©1993- Books
The Amazon and Madeira Rivers : sketches and descriptions from the note-book of an explorer / by Franz Keller, engineer; with sixty-eight illustration.
Keller, Franz, 1835-1890.Date: 1874- Books
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 / [James Bruce].
Bruce, James, 1730-1794.Date: 1790