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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
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
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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
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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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
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- Books
Missions to the Niger / edited by E.W. Bovill.
Date: 1964-- Books
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The voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595-1606 / translated and edited by Sir Clements Markham.
Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de, -1615.Date: 1904- Books
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A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken by command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere: performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Being a copious, comprehensive, and satisfactory abridgement of the voyage written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S. and Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S / Illustrted with cuts. In four volumes.
Cook, James, 1728-1779.Date: 1784- 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
A sailor in the Sahara : the life and travels in Africa of Hugh Clapperton, Commander RN / Jamie Bruce Lockhart.
Bruce-Lockhart, Jamie.Date: 2007- Books
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Cannibal fictions : American explorations of colonialism, race, gender and sexuality / Jeff Berglund.
Berglund, JeffDate: [2006], ©2006- Books
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Columbus; or, The discovery of America: as related by a father to his children, and designed for the instruction of youth. In two volumes. [-] Vol. II. Translated from the German of J. H. Campe, (author of the new Robinson crusoe) by Elizabeth Helme, author of Instructive rambles in London and its environs, the abridgement of plutarch's lives, etc. etc.
Campe, Joachim Heinrich, 1746-1818.Date: 1799- Books
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Beastly Journeys : Travel and Transformation at the fin de siecle.
Youngs, Tim.Date: 2013- Books
Dreams, medicine, and literary practice : exploring the Western literary tradition through Chaucer / by Tanya S. Lenz.
Lenz, Tanya S.Date: 2013- Books
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Across unknown South America / by A. Henry Savage-Landor.
Landor, Arnold Henry Savage, 1865-1924.Date: [1913]- Books
Personal narrative of explorations & incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican boundary commission during the 1850, '51, '52 and '53 / by John Russell Bartlett.
Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886.Date: 1854