Portal:Exploration

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

• 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 Pascual de Andagoya
• "Discovery of Mount Tyndall" by William Henry Brewer in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (April 1873).
• "Observations of a Naturalist in Nicaragua" in Popular Science Monthly, 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

• 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

• Portal:Space exploration