LibGuides: Primary Sources: Exploration & Discovery: General Sources

Online Sources: Exploration - General Sources

Expeditions & Discovery (Harvard University Open Collections)
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"The Expeditions and Discoveries Collection includes maps, photos, and published materials, as well as field notes, letters, and a unique range of manuscript materials on selected expeditions between 1626 and 1953."
DPLA Primary Source Set: The Columbian Exchange Source Set
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"This primary source set explores positive and negative consequences of this great shift, showing both instances of exchange and resulting instances of cultural, political, ecological, and biological imperialism."
Library of Congress: Primary Source Set: Spanish and Portuguese Exploration in the Americas
DPLA Primary Source Set: Exploration of the Americas

Documents Concerning English Voyages to the Spanish Main, 1569-1580 by Irene A. Wright (Editor)
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central

ISBN: 9781409414384

I .Spanish Documents selected from the Archives of the Indies at Seville; II. English Accounts, Sir Francis Drake revived, and Others Reprinted
Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents by Jill Lepore
Call Number: E59.F53 E53 2000

ISBN: 0195154916
First Encounters: Native Voices on the Coming of the Europeans by Howard B. Leavitt
Call Number: GN368 .F57 2010

ISBN: 0313351317
Food History: Critical and Primary Sources by Jeffrey M. Pilcher (Editor)
ISBN: 0857854232
The Food History Reader: Primary Sources by Ken Albala (Editor)
ISBN: 0857854127
Last Voyages -Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh : the Original Narratives by Philip Edwards (Editor)
Call Number: PR1295 .L37 1988

ISBN: 0198128940
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation... by Richard Hakluyt
Call Number: G240 .H35 1969
Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern
Call Number: AC1 .H339 v.33
Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society
"Founded in 1846, the Hakluyt Society seeks to advance knowledge and education by the publication of scholarly editions of primary records of voyages, travels and other geographical material."
The World Displayed, or, A Collection of Voyages and Travels by Christopher Smart et al.
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

selected from the writers of all nations; embellished with plates

Vols. 1-8; 10

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