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Sepia photograph of a man, Kazimierz Nowak, wearing khakis and a pith helmet in the African jungle — Exploration

Africa

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, 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
The Victoria Falls, 1879, by Emil Holub
The Past, Present and Future Trade of the Cape Colonies with Central Africa by Emil Holub (1879)
Seven Years in South Africa, 1881, by Emil Holub
"A South African Arcadia" by Carl Gotthilf Büttner in Popular Science Monthly, 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
Lake Ngami, 1861, by Charles John Andersson

The Americas

Antarctica

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
The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910–1913, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Vol. 1, Vol. 2)

Arctic

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
Arctic Researches, And Life Among The Esquimaux, 1865, by Charles Francis Hall (transcription project)
"In Quest of the Pole" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (July 1873).
"Recent Polar Explorations" in Popular Science Monthly, 7 (July 1875).
"Arctic Ice-Travels" by Clements R. Markham in Popular Science Monthly, 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, 27 (May 1885).
"Arctic Temperatures and Exploration" by Stuart Jenkins in Popular Science Monthly, 45 (September 1894).
"Proposed System of Continuous Polar Exploration" by Robert Stein in Popular Science Monthly, 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

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, 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, 19 (September 1881).
"The Topmost Country of the Earth" by Gustav Kreitner in Popular Science Monthly, 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

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

Notes upon Russia, 1549 by Sigismund von Herberstein

Oceania

A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, by William Dampier

Circumnavigations

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

"How the Sea-Depths are Explored" in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (July 1873).
"The Problems of the Deep Sea" by Thomas Henry Huxley in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (August 1873).
"On Some of the Results of the Expedition of H M S Challenger" by Thomas Henry Huxley in Popular Science Monthly, 7 (May 1875).

Space discovery

Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs (The Goal of Sending a Man to the Moon) by John F. Kennedy

General

"Recent Geographical Progress" by Charles Patrick Daly in Popular Science Monthly, 9 (May 1876).
"How the Earth was Explored in 1876" by Charles Patrick Daly in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (March 1877).
"Recent Geographical Exploration" by Charles Patrick Daly in Popular Science Monthly, 17 (June 1880).
"Unexplored Parts of the Old World" by M. Vénukoff in Popular Science Monthly, 19 (September 1881).

Fiction

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

See also

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