Portal:Exploration
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Africa [edit]
- Travels to discover the source of the Nile: in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, 1790, by James Bruce
- Travels into the Interior Districts of Africa, 1799 by Mungo Park
- A voyage to Abyssinia, 1816 by Henry Salt (transcription project)
- Narrative of an Expedition to explore the River Zaire or Congo in 1816, 1818 by J. K. Tucke
- Narrative of travels and discoveries in northern and central Africa, 1826 by Dixon Denham and Hugh Clapperton
- First Footsteps in East Africa, 1856 by Richard Francis Burton
- “Dr. Livingstone,” by L. J. Procter in Popular Science Monthly Volume 2, January 1873.
- Adventures in Morocco and journeys through the oases of Draa and Tafilet. With an introduction by Winwood Reade, 1874 by Gerhard Rohlfs
- Through the Dark Continent, 1878 by Henry M. Stanley
- The Heart of Africa, 1873, new ed. 1878, by Georg August Schweinfurth
- “A South African Arcadia,” by Carl Gotthilf Büttner in Popular Science Monthly Volume 22, March 1883.
- A Popular Account of Dr Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries, 1894 by David Livingstone
- The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, 1907 by John Henry Patterson
The Americas [edit]
- Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Vol.I, 1853 by William Lewis Herndon
- Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Vol. II, 1854 by Lardner Gibbon
- Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila, 1865 by Author:Pascual de AndagoyaPascual de Andagoya
- “Discovery of Mount Tyndall,” by William Henry Brewer in Popular Science Monthly Volume 2, April 1873.
- “Observations of a Naturalist in Nicaragua,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 5, May 1874.
- Mexico, California and Arizona; being a new and revised edition of Old Mexico and her lost provinces, 1900, by William Henry Bishop (transcription project)
- Through the Brazilian Wilderness, 1914 by Theodore Roosevelt
Antarctica [edit]
- A Voyage Towards the South pole and Around the World, 1770s by James Cook
- South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition, 1914-1917 by Ernest Henry Shackleton
- Progress of Science (on the "Discovery" Antarctic expedition) in Popular Science Monthly, 59, pp. 104-105
Arctic [edit]
- Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America, effected by the Officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company, during the years 1836—39, 1843, by Thomas Simpson
- Life with the Esquimaux 1864, by Charles Francis Hall (transcription project)
- Arctic Researches, And Life Among The Esquimaux, 1865, by Charles Francis Hall (transcription project)
- “In Quest of the Pole,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 3, July 1873.
- “Recent Polar Explorations,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 7, July 1875.
- “Arctic Ice-Travels,” by Clements R. Markham in Popular Science Monthly Volume 7, August 1875.
- Journal of David Legge Brainard, 1881-84 by David Legge Brainard
- In the Lena Delta, 1885 by George Wallace Melville (transcription project)
- “Arctic Exploration and its Object,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 27, May 1885.
- “Arctic Temperatures and Exploration,” by Stuart Jenkins in Popular Science Monthly Volume 45, September 1894.
- “Proposed System of Continuous Polar Exploration,” by Robert Stein in Popular Science Monthly Volume 49, July 1896.
- Proposed Expedition to Explore Ellesmere Land, 1898, by Robert Stein (scan index)
- Polar Exploration, 1911, by William Spiers Bruce (scan index).
- The Last Voyage of the Karluk, 1916, Robert Abram Bartlett (transcription project)
- Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-1918 (commons gallery of available sections)
- Progress of Science (on British and German Arctic expeditions) in Popular Science Monthly, 59, p. 104
Asia [edit]
- The Travels of Marco Polo, by Marco Polo
- Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah, 1855 by Richard Francis Burton
- “Regarding Matters in India,” by George Francis Lyon in Popular Science Monthly Volume 2, March 1873.
- The Land of Midian, 1879 by Richard Francis Burton
- “Unexplored Parts of the Old World,” by M. Vénukoff in Popular Science Monthly Volume 19, September 1881.
- “The Topmost Country of the Earth,” by Gustav Kreitner in Popular Science Monthly Volume 21, August 1882.
- In the Forbidden Land, 1899 by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
- Lhasa and Central Tibet, 1903 by Gombojab Tsybikov
- Early English Adventurers in the East, 1917 by Arnold Wright
Australia [edit]
- The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N. by Ernest Scott
- The Life of Captain James Cook, 1788 by Andrew Kippis
- The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay, 1789, by Arthur Phillip
- The Endeavour Journal, by Joseph Banks
- The Exploration of Australia, 1891, by Albert Frederick Calvert (transcription project)
- An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait on the south coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in the years 1802-3-4 by James Hingston Tuckey
Europe [edit]
Oceania [edit]
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- Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, Volume 1, 1843, by Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N. (transcription project)
- Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, Volume 2, 1843, by Captain Sir Edward Belcher, R.N. (transcription project)
- The First Voyage Round the World, by Magellan 1874 by Lord Stanley of Alderley
- Twenty years before the mast 1896 by Charles Erskine (transcription project)
Deep sea [edit]
- “How the Sea-Depths are Explored,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 3, July 1873.
- “The Problems of the Deep Sea,” by Thomas Henry Huxley in Popular Science Monthly Volume 3, August 1873.
- “On Some of the Results of the Expedition of H M S Challenger,” by Thomas Henry Huxley in Popular Science Monthly Volume 7, May 1875.
Space discovery [edit]
- Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs (The Goal of Sending a Man to the Moon) by John F. Kennedy
General [edit]
- “Recent Geographical Progress,” by Charles Patrick Daly in Popular Science Monthly Volume 9, May 1876.
- “How the Earth was Explored in 1876,” by Charles Patrick Daly in Popular Science Monthly Volume 10, March 1877.
- “Recent Geographical Exploration,” by Charles Patrick Daly in Popular Science Monthly Volume 17, June 1880.
- “Unexplored Parts of the Old World,” by M. Vénukoff in Popular Science Monthly Volume 19, September 1881.
Fiction [edit]
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
