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Title	Edition	Year of Publication	Contributors	Country of Publication	Possible Copyright Status				Available Online?
Abenteuer am rande der welt		1936	Victor Witte
Adventure		1930	Major-General, Baron John Edward Bernard Seely Mottistone
Adventure's best stories--1926		1926	Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, F. R. Buckley, D. Collins
Adventurers in the eighteenth century		1937	Peter Wilding
Adventurers in the wilderness		1925	William Charles Henry Wood, Constance Lindsay Skinner, Clark Wissler
Adventures in Americana, 1492-1897: the romance of voyage and discovery from Spain to the Indies, the Spanish Main, and North America; inland to the Ohio country; on toward the Mississippi; through to California; over Chilkoot Pass to the gold fields of Alaska. Being a selection of books from the library of Herschel V. Jones, Minneapolis, Minnesota		1928	Dr. Wilberforce Eaines, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian) Jones
The adventures of Captain Grief	[Rev. ed.]	1954	Jack London
Adventurous days		1930	C. Kingsley, C. Reade, H. Melville
Africa and the discovery of America		1920	Leo Wiener
After Coronado		1934	Alfred Barnaby Thomas
America begins: the story of the finding of the new world		1938	Alice Dalgliesh, Lois Maloy
America's old world background		1934	Gertrude (Van Duyn) Southworth, John Van Duyn Southworth
America's world backgrounds		1936	George Earl Freeland, James Truslow Adams
American beginnings		1952	Jarvis Means Morse
The American people and their old world ancestors		1930	Grace Vollintine
American treasure and the price revolution in Spain, 1501-1650		1934	Earl J. (Earl Jefferson) Hamilton
Americana; the literature of American history		1925	Milton Waldman
Amerigo Vespucci: pilot major		1944	Frederick Julius Pohl
The Atlantic		1930	Stanley Rogers
The autobiography of Frank Tarbeaux as told to Donald Henderson Clarke		1930	Donald Henderson Clarke, Frank Tarbeaux
Before America began		1937	sister Mary Joseph Dunn, sister Leonita Mulhall, William Henry Joseph Kennedy
The best stories of exploration I know		1932	John Clair Minot
The birth of the American people		1930	James Morgan
Black adventure		1933	Joseph Dixon, Mrs Nan (Watson) Denker
Blazing the trail through the Rockies: the story of Walter Moberly and his share in the making of Vancouver		1915	Noel. Robinson, Walter Moberly
A book of old maps, delineating American history from the earliest days down to the close of the Revolutionary War		1926	Emerson David Fite, Archibald Freeman
The book of polar exploration		1928	Edith L. Elias
Books of the brave: being an account of books and of men in the Spanish conquest and settlement of the sixteenth-century New World		1949	Irving Albert Leonard
The boy's story of Zebulon M. Pike		1911	Mary Gay Humphreys, Zebulon Montgomery Pike
Boys and girls of discovery days		1926	Dorothy Dulin, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Breve noticia sobre o descobrimento da America		1919	Augusto Carlos Teixeira de Aragão
Brief history of polar exploration since the introduction of flying		1930	W. L. G. (Wolfgang Louis Gottfried) Joerg
Brief history of polar exploration since the introduction of flying		1930	W. L. G. (Wolfgang Louis Gottfried) Joerg
California and the opening of the gateway between the Atlantic and the Pacific		1916
The call of the wild, and other stories		1926	Jack London, Frank Luther Mott
The call of the wild, and other stories		1927	Jack London, Frank Luther Mott
Call to adventure: true tales of adventures set down by the men who actually experienced them		1934	James E. West, Major George Witten, Robert Spiers Benjamin
A canyon voyage: the narrative of the second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872	[2d ed.]	1926	Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
Captain Jack, his story as told to Henry Outerbridge: the life-story to date of a born swashbuckler, two-gun fighter, and world-roving maker of history, including confidential information on the recent disturbances in Mexico, Nicaragua, China, and other places where Uncle Sam has irons in the fire		1928	Henry Outerbridge
Central route to the Pacific: With related material on railroad explorations and Indian affairs by Edward F. Beale, Thomas H. Benton, Kit Carson, and E. A. Hitchcock, and in other documents, 1853-54		1957	Gwinn Harris Heap
Chase and chance in Indo-China		1933	H. Warington (Herbert Warington) Smyth
Christopher Columbus, mariner	[1st ed.]	1955	Samuel Eliot Morison
Chronological digest of the "Documentos ineditos del Archivo de las Indias"		1914	Benjamin M. (Benjamin Maurice) Read
Colorado river controversies		1932	Julius F. Stone, Robert Brewster Stanton, James McGowan Chalfant
Columbus and his predecessors: a study in the beginnings of American history		1912	Charles Hallan McCarthy
The Columbus and Magellan concepts of South American geography		1932	George E. (George Emra) Nunn, Christopher Columbus, Fernão de Magalhães
The coming of the peoples		1922	C. A. Federer, Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
Count Billy		1928	F. D. Bedford, Greville Macdonald
A count in the fo'c'sle		1932	Count Jean Louis D'Esque, Jean DÉsque
Crusoes and castaways		1932	Stanley Rogers
David and the Phoenix		1957	Edward Ormondroyd, Edward Ormondroyd, Joan Raysor
The dawn of Canadian history: a chronicle of aboriginal Canada and the coming of the white man		1914	Stephen Leacock
...Days of the discoverers		1921	Louise Lamprey, Florence Choate, Elizabeth Curtis
De Soto and the conquistadores		1930	Theodore Maynard
Defense of the castle		1937	Albert I. Mayer, Henry C. (Henry Clarence) Pitz
Der neue Robinson: eine entdeckungsfahrt; mit über 30 originalaufnahmen		1930	Elsie McCalman, Richard Halliburton
Der Ruf des Nordens: Abenteuer und Heldentum der Nordpolfahrer		1927	H. H. (Heinrich Hubert) Houben
Destination unknown: the autobiography of a wandering boy		1934	Fred. Walker
Destination unkown		1935	Fred. Walker
Die grossen kapitäne		1933	freiherr von Alfons Czibulka
The diplomacy concerning the discovery of America		1948	George Emra Nunn
The discovery of America		1917	J. Woodman Thompson, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis) Coakley
The discovery of the Amazon according to the account of Friar Gaspar de Carvajal and other documents		1934	José Toribio Medina, H. C. (Harry Clifton) Heaton, Gaspar de Carvajal
The distant prize: a book about rovers, rangers and rascals		1935	Henry C. (Henry Clarence) Pitz, Charles Joseph Finger
Don Sturdy captured by head hunters: or, Adrift in the wilds of Borneo		1928	Walter S. Rogers, pseud Victor Appleton
Don Sturdy in the land of giants: or, Captives of the savage Patagonians		1930	pseud Victor Appleton, Walter S. Kogers
Don Sturdy in the land of volcanoes: or, The trail of the Ten Thousand Smokes		1925	Walter S. Rogers, pseud Victor Appleton
Drake, Nelson and Napoleon: studies		1919	Baron Walter Runciman Runciman
Drake's plate of brass, evidence of his visit to California in 1579		1937	Eleanor Bancroft, Herbert Eugene Bolton, Douglas Sloane Watson
Drake's quest		1927	Cameron Rogers, James Daugherty
Early narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699		1917	Father Vimont, Father Lalemant, La Potherie
En hydravion au-dessus du Continent noir		1927	Marc Bernard
Enchanted isles		1933	Stanley Rogers
Eric the Red		1933	Ernst Hansen, Mrs Lida Siboni Hanson
Erik den Røde og nordbokolonierne i Grønland		1915	Daniel Bruun
Erik the Red, Leif the Lucky and other pre-Columbian discoverers of America		1911	Oswald Moosmüller, George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Erlebte Robinsonaden		1925	Paul Schneider
Europa entdeckt und erobert die welt		1937	Johannes Koll
Europe, the mother of America		1930	Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne, Olive Bucks
Explorers and founders of America		1929	Anna Elizabeth Foote, Avery Warner Skinner
Explorers and founders of America		1907	Anna Elizabeth Foote, Avery Warner Skinner
Explorers and pioneers		1934	William Lewis Nida
Explorers and settlers		1912	Charles L. (Charles Lester) Barstow
Explorers club tales		1936
The eyes of discovery: the pageant of North America as seen by the first explorers	[1st ed.]	1950	John Bakeless
Famous discoverers and explorers of America		1917	Charles Haven Ladd Johnston
Fear, and be slain		1931	Baron John Edward Bernard Seely Mottistone
Fils du soleil		1937	Jack London, Louis Postif
Finders and founders of the New world		1925	Thomas Francis Moran, James Albert Woodburn
Finding the New world		1935	Walter Taylor Field
First through the Grand Canyon		1915	John Wesley Powell, Horace Kephart
Following the conquerors: the story of the Caribbean Sea, with an introduction		1922	Carrie Gilbert Ainsworth
Founders of our country		1930	Fanny E. (Fanny Eliza) Coe
The founding of America		1931	Henry Smith Chapman
The founding of America		1936	Henry Smith Chapman
Frémont and '49		1914	Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
Frémont's expeditions through Kansas, 1842-1854		1962	Lilburn H. Horton
Francis Drake als freibeuter in Spanisch-Amerika		1924	Hans Damm
Francis Drake & other early explorers along the Pacific coast		1927	John W. (John Wooster) Robertson
Fremont's fourth expedition: a documentary account of the disaster of 1848-1849, with diaries, letters, and reports by participants in the tragedy		1960	Ann W. (Ann Woodbury) Hafen, LeRoy R. (LeRoy Reuben) Hafen
The French régime in Wisconsin and the Northwest		1925	Louise Phelps Kellogg, J. Schafer
Gamblers with fate		1945	Douglas Allan
The gateway to American history		1927	Randolph Greenfield Adams
The gateway to American history		1930	Thomas Bonaventure Lawler
Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola und die Entdeckung Amerikas, vorstellungen und Urteile eines Zeitgenossen der Ersten Entdeckungsjahrzehnte		1929	Adolf Schill
Gold!: a tale of great and romantic adventurings by Argonauts upon sea and land in that eternal quest of the golden fleece which lured captains and companies into the dragon-guarded unknown and altered the face of this western continent		1929	Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin, Charles Hargens
Great moments of adventure: the dramatic records of nineteen gallant gentlemen		1930	Evan John David
Gustav Storms studier over Vinlandsreiserne		1912	Peter P. Iverslie
Heart of Asia: true tales of the Far East		1951	Roy Chapman Andrews
Henry Hudson		1928	Llewelyn Powys
Heroes of discovery in America	2d ed.	1919	Charles Morris
Heroes of modern adventure		1927	Thomas Charles Bridges, Hubert Hessell Tiltman
Hispanic culture and language in the United States		1933	His Excellency Juan Francisco, Juan Francisco de Cárdenas
A history of geographical discovery, 1400-1800		1933	James Edward Gillespie
History of the Norwegian people in America		1925	Olaf Morgan Norlie
History with a match: being an account of the earliest navigators and the discovery of America		1917	Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Hobart Pasha: blockade-running, slaver-hunting, and war and sport in Turkey		1915	Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden, Horace Kephart
How the Old world found the New		1929	Lida Lee Tall, John Montgomery Gambrill, Eunice Fuller Barnard
How we got this way		1935	John J. Cadigan, Katherine Crosby
The human side of the news		1934	Edwin Conger Hill
Hvorledes og hyorfor med "Nautilus,"		1931	H. U. (Harald Ulrik) Sverdrup
I have no regrets: the strange life of a diplomat-vagrant, being the memoirs of Lieutenant Bringolf		1932	Warre Bradley Wells, Hans Bringolf
The iconography of Manhattan island, 1498-1909: compiled from original sovrces and illvstrated by photo-intaglio reprodvctions of important maps, plans, views and docvments in pvblic and private collections		1915	Victor Hugo Paltsits, F. C. (Frederik Caspar) Wieder, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps) Stokes
Im Flugzeug dem Nordpol entgegen: Junkers'sche Hilfsexpedition für Amundsen nach Spitzbergen, 1923		1924	Hans. Boykow, Adolf Miethe, Walter Mittelholzer
In northern mists: Arctic exploration in early times		1911	Arthur Gr. Chater, Fridtjof Nansen
In northern mists: Arctic exploration in early times		1911	Arthur G. Chater, Fridtjof Nansen
In our time: stories		1930	Edmund Wilson, Ernest Hemingway
In quest of the western ocean		1928	Nellis Maynard Crouse
The incurable filibuster: adventures of Colonel Dean Ivan Lamb		1934	Paul Brown, Dean Ivan. Lamb
An introduction to American history: European beginnings	Rev. ed.	1919	Alice M. (Alice Minerva) Atkinson
The Italians in America before the civil war		1934	Onorio Ruotolo, Giovanni Ermenegildo Schiavo
Jacques Cartier et la découverte du Canada		1937	Georges Vattier
The journey home		1933	Eric Muspratt
Kolumbus entlarvt!		1936	Hans Hermann Reinsch
Kullu and the elephant		1929	John Eyton, William R. Lohse
L'Amérique et le rève exotique dans la littérature française au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle		1913	Gilbert Chinard
L'exotisme américain dans la littérature française au XVIe siècle d'après Rabelais, Ronsard, Montaigne, etc		1911	Gilbert Chinard
Le voyage de Leif l'Heureux		1934
Leifsaga: a narrative poem of the Norse discoveries of America		1934	Henry Chapin
Lives of danger and daring: glimpses into the lives of men who have dared all kinds of danger		1936	Hubert Vansant Coryell
Los exploradores españoles del siglo XVI: vindicación de la acción colonizadora española en América		1916	Rafael Altamira, Arturo Cuyás, Charles Fletcher Lummis
Lost ships and lonely seas		1921	Ralph Delahaye Paine
Álvar Núñez Cabez de Vaca: the journey and route of the first European to cross the continent of North America		1940	Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Cleve Hallenbeck
Männer sehen dem tod ins gesicht: tatsachenberichte		1935	Victor Witte
Makers of the New world		1929	Henry Noble Sherwood
Makers of the new world		1936	Henry Noble Sherwood
A man unafraid: the story of John Charles Frémont		1927	Harr Wagner, Herbert Bashford
The mappemonde of Juan de la Cosa: a critical investigation of its date		1934	George Emra Nunn
The mariner of St. Malo: a chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier		1914	Stephen Leacock
Martin Behaim aus Nürnberg: Der geistige entdecker Amerika's		1859	Alexander Ziegler
Memoirs of a soldier of fortune: General Rafael de Nogales		1932	Rafael de Nogales Méndez
Men of daring		1933	Stookie Allen
A mirror for ruffians		1939	Philip Lindsay
More heroes of modern adventure		1929	Thomas Charles Bridges, Hubert Hessell Tiltman
More heroes of modern adventure		1930	Thomas Charles Bridges, Hubert Hessell Tiltman
More to and again		1930	Walter R. Brooks, Kurt Wiese
New horizons		1936	H. A. (Harry Augustus) Miller, Bernice E. (Bernice Elizabeth) Leary
New worlds to conquer		1929	Richard Halliburton
Niger: the life of Mungo Park		1934	James Leslie Mitchell
No longer innocent		1934	Ivan. Goff, E. W. (Edward Way). Irwin
Nogales y Mendez, Rafael de, 1879-		1934
North America in days of discovery		1923	Arthur John Fynn
Norwegian sailors in American waters: a study in the history of maritime activity on the eastern seaboard		1933	Knut Gjerset
The odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca		1933	Morris Bishop
Old Panama and Castilla del Oro: a narrative history of the discovery, conquest, and settlement by the Spaniards of Panama, Darien, Veragua, Santo Domingo, Santa Marta, Cartagena, Nicaragua, and Peru: including the four voyages of Columbus to America, the discovery of the Pacific ocean by Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, a description of the aborigines of the isthmus, accounts of the search for a strait through the New world and early efforts for a canal, the daring raids of Sir Francis Drake, the buccaneers in the Caribbean and south seas, the sack of the city of Old Panama by Henry Morgan, and the story of the Scots colony on Caledonia bay		1911	Charles L. G. (Charles Loftus Grant) Anderson
The old-world beginnings of America		1932	Mary G. Kelty
One-arm Sutton		1933	F. A. (Francis Arthur) Sutton
Our country in story		1917
Our country's beginnings		1937	Henry Noble Sherwood
Our European ancestors: an introduction to United States history		1918	Eva March Tappan
Our past in Western Europe		1935	Daniel C. (Daniel Chauncey) Knowlton, Mary Alexandria Wheeler
Our past in western Europe: a second book in history		1933	Daniel C. (Daniel Chauncey) Knowlton, Mary Alexandria Wheeler
Outposts of empire		1908	Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton, John. Lang
The Pacific		1931	Stanley Rogers
The Pacific		1931	Stanley Rogers
The pathbreakers from river to ocean: the story of the great West from the time of Coronado to the present		1911	Grace Raymond Hebard
The period of discovery		1915	Louise Stoll Roemer, Joseph Vincent McKee
The period of discovery		1914	Joseph Vincent Mckee, Louise S. Roemer
Plymouth and the Pilgrims		1920	Arthur Lord
A pre-Columbian crusade to America		1962	Hjalmar Rued Holand
Prehistoric structures of Central America: who erected them? : a lecture		1895	Martin I. (Martin Ingham) Townsend
The problem of Wineland		1936	Halldór Hermannsson
The quest of the western world		1921	C. A. Federer, Francis William Rolt-Wheeler
The ranks of death: a medical history of the conquest of America		1947	Frank Davis Ashburn, P. M. (Percy Moreau) Ashburn
Rectificaciones históricas		1933	José Leandro Montalvo Guenard
Relation originale du voyage de Jacques Cartier au Canada en 1534: Documents inédits sur Jacques Cartier et le Canada (nouvelle série)		1867	Henri Victor Michelant, Jacques Cartier, Alfred Ramé
Rescue		1932	Rupert Sargent Holland
Roald Amundsen: - my life as an explorer		1927	Roald Amundsen
Roast beef, medium: the business adventures of Emma McChesney		1913	James Montgomery Flagg, Edna Ferber
The romance of modern exploration		1929	Fitzhugh Green
Romance of the American map		1934	Esse V. (Esse Virginia) Hathaway
Roving and fighting: adventures under four flags		1918	Edward Synnott O'Reilly
Sailor of fortune: adventures of an Irish sailor, soldier, pirate, pearl-fisher, gun-runner, rebel and Antarctic explorer		1935	Charles John McGuinness
Salt Desert trails: a history of the Hastings cutoff and other early trails which crossed the Great Salt Desert seeking a shorter road to California		1930	Charles Kelly
Schoolcraft's expedition to lake itasca: the discovery of the source of the Mississippi		1958	Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Philip P. (Philip Parker) Mason
The Sea, the ship and the sailor: tales of adventure from log books and original narratives		1925	Charles H. Barnard, John Nicol, John B. Knights
Sea-lore		1929	Stanley Rogers
Search		1932	Lincoln Ellsworth, Gilbert H. Grosvenor
Seed of liberty: the story of the American colonies		1929	E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
Sentenced to adventure: an autobiography		1936	Serge Zolotoohin
Sentenced to adventure: an autobiography		1937	Serge Zolotoohin
Shenanigans at Sugar Creek		1947	Paul Hutchens
Ships and sailors; tales of the sea		1928	Stanley Rogers
Sir Francis Drake		1927	E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Sir Francis Drake's voyages around the world: its aims and achievements		1926	Henry Raup Wagner
Sir Francis Drake		1927	E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
Sir Francis Drake		1932	León Lemonnier
Some untaught history of America: some historical facts with which Americans should be familiar		1926	Chester Woodruff Rush
A son of the sun		1912	Jack London
A source textbook in American history: a first book with the European background		1927	Percy E. (Percy Erwin) Davidson, Elizabeth Chapman Davidson, Herbert E. Bolton
The Spanish borderlands: a chronicle of old Florida and the Southwest		1921	Herbert Eugene Bolton
The Spanish borderlands: a chronicle of old Florida and the Southwest		1921	Herbert Eugene Bolton
The Spanish conquerors: a chronicle of the dawn of empire, overseas		1921	Irving Berdine Richman
Spanish exploration in the Southwest, 1542-1706		1916	Herbert Eugene Bolton
Spanish explorations in the strait of Juan de Fuca		1933	Henry Raup Wagner
The Spanish pioneers and the California missions		1929	Charles Fletcher Lummis
Spanish voyages to the northwest coast of America in the sixteenth century		1929	Henry Raup Wagner
Squadron of death: the true adventures of a movie planecrasher		1929	Dick Grace
Stories of American explorers and settlers		1933	Edwin J. Prittie, Sarah Dow. Heard, M. TV. King
Stories of early American history		1926	Wilbur Fisk Gordy
Stories of early American history		1930	Wilbur Fisk Gordy
Stories of early American history		1913	Wilbur Fisk Gordy
Stories of our European forefathers		1930	James Sullivan, Henry Smith Chapman
The story of extinct civilizations of the West		1915	Robert E. Anderson
The story of old Europe and young America	[Enl. ed.]	1922	Edwin P. (Edwin Platt) Tanner, Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill, William H. (William Harrison) Mace
The story of old Europe and young America		1915	Homer W. Colbj, Edwin P. (Edwin Platt) Tanner, Frank T. (Frank Thayer) Merrill
The story of the middle ages: the old world background of American history from the fall of Rome through the period of exploration		1934	Gertrude (Van Duyn) Southworth, John Van Duyn Southworth
The story of the new lands		1937	Naomi Averill, Donald Culross Peattie
Ten great adventurers		1915	George Alfred Williams, Kate Dickinson Sweetser
Terra Nova: the northeast coast of America before 1602; annals of Vinland, Markland, Estotiland, Drogeo, Baccalaos and Norumbega		1935	Charles Knowles Bolton, Ethel Stanwood Bolton
The terrific register		1825
Thrills		1933	Lowell Thomas, Sgt. Dan Edwards
The trail of the conquerors		1936	Percy Thomas Etherton, Colonel P. T. Etherton, Vernon Barlow
The treasure finders: or, How the adventurers of four countries sought a new land		1914	Oliver Clay
The truth about Columbus and the discovery of America		1936	Charles Duff
The truth about Columbus and the discovery of America		1936	Charles Duff
Uncle Sam's camels: the journal of May Humphreys Stacey		1929	May Humphreys Stacey, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Lewis Burt Lesley
Valiant vagabonds		1936	Charles Joseph Finger
Vasco da Gama: der weg nach Ostindien		1924	Hans Plischke, Gaspar Corrêa
Von rätselhaften Ländern: versunkene Stätten der Geschichte		1925	Richard Hennig
Voyages and discoveries of the companions of Columbus		1929	Washington Irving
Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618		1907	W. L. (William Lawson) Grant, Samuel de Champlain
The voyages of the Norsemen to America		1914	William Hovgaard
The waters of Africa		1929	Ethelreda Lewis, Trader Horn
Westward toward America		1929	Wilbur Fisk Gordy, Marion G. Clark
Westward toward America		1936	Wilbur Fisk Gordy, Marion G. Clark
What men from Europe brought to America		1929	Wilbur Fisk Gordy, Marion G. Clark
What the old world gave the new: a story of the European background of American history		1924	Gertrude (Van Duyn) Southworth, John Van Duyn Southworth
Where danger beckons: a world-wide adventure book		1936
Wilderness, the discovery of a continent of wonder		1961	Rutherford Hayes Platt