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213 entries match Travel & Voyages [K01.400.680]
1890
#8287
Reisebilder aus Liberia: Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer untersuchungen während der jahre 1879-1882 und 1886-1887. 2 vols.
The first comprehensive monograph on the Republic of Liberia, published 50 years after its colonization by freed American slaves and their descendents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Transla…
1896
#12949
Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks...during Captain Cook's first voyage in H.M.S. Edeavour in 1766-71 to Terra de Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies. Etc. Edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1897
#12800
Audubon and his journals by Maria R. Audubon. With zoological and other notes by Elliott Coues. 2 vols.
A biographical study by his grand-daughter, based on previously unpublished letters and journals of John James Audubon. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1898
#13857
Considérations sanitaires sur l'expédition de Madagascar et quelques autres expéditions coloniales, françaises et anglaises.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1907
#7364
Hamilton's Itinerarium; being a narrative of a journey from Annapolis, Maryland, through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, from May to September, 1744, Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart.
Hamilton's Itinerarium was first issued by Albert Bushnell Hart in an edition privately printed by William K. Bixby, St. Louis, Missouri, 1907. It was republished as Gentleman's progress: the Itinerarium of Dr. Alexan…
1907
#14162
The journal of Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia from the city of Rome to the city of London 1764. Together with a fragment of a journal written at Rome, 1764, and a biographical sketch.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908
#7444
Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastas; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific during the years 1849-1864. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace..., with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1912
#7482
The depths of the ocean. A general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian Steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.
1915
#9182
The north-west Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes.
"This 1915 volume recounts Captain Thomas Whiffen’s travels in Brazil and Colombia in the region between the rivers Issa (or Içá) and Apaporis, and the Putumayo District. The study looks at the way in which the indige…
1915
#12573
Report of first expedition to South America 1913.
Strong was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard. The Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1913, the year they undertook this expedition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1917
#12500
Marching on Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa).
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1918
#11014
The medical report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil.
The expedition was led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., an American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer noted for his expeditions to the Amazon Basin. "As a geographer and explorer Rice specialized in rivers.[1][7…
1922
#8712
South America from a surgeon's point of view.
Martin, "Director-General, American College of Surgeons," and Managing Editor, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, visited South American with William J. Mayo, who wrote the introduction. Digital facsimile from Google…
1926
#12574
Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925
"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…
1927
#8711
South America, amplified to include all of Latin America: The Vandyck Cruise.
Medical visits to Latin America on behalf of the American College of Surgeons, of which Martin was a founder. Includes chapters by William J. Mayo, among others.
1928
#12605
With a woman's unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol.
Hutton, a physician who specialized in mental and nervous disorders, began working with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, a voluntary organisation established by her older colleague Elsie Inglis, in 1915 first in France…
1930
#12459
The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.
"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…
1934
#12575
Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV
In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.
1935
#7449
T. H. Huxley's diary of the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. Edited from the unpublished ms
Huxley served as assistant surgeon and naturalist aboard the Rattlesnake (1845-50) which made cruises from Australia to Louisiade Archipelago, New Guinea and Cape York. His diary is illustrated with his own drawings.
1936
#8726
Truants: The story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed.
Discusses the careers of physicians who turned their attention to other pursuits, including Rabelais, Smollett, Doyle, Mitchell, and other writers as well as Livingstone and other explorers, etc.
1937
#13880
Journal of a seaplane cruise around the world August 20, 1934 to January 24, 1935.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1938
#12593
A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.
Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1941
#13881
Focus on Africa.
Includes the first aerial photographs of Africa taken by Mary Light. This was the second book to reproduce aerial photographs. Richard Light was an American neurosurgeon, a noted aviator, and a photographer and cinema…
1942
#9824
The United States Exploring Expedition and its publications, 1844–1874: A bibliography
Reprinted with additions and corrections from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February 1940 and January, July and October 1941.
1956
#7238
Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.
Reprinted with a new introduction and bibliographical supplement by Stephen Dow Beckham, Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 1991.
1965
#9598
Bio-bibliographie de quelques médecins naturalistes voyageurs de la marine au début du XIXe siècle. Colloque International sur L'Histoire de la Biologie Marine. Les grandes expéditions scientifiques et la création des laboratoires maritimes. 2-6 septembre 1963. Supplément no. 19 à "Vie et Milieu", pp. 163-223.
1965
#12420
The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr. John Kirk, 1858-63. Edited by Reginald Foskett. 2 vols.
1966
#9827
Exploration and empire: The explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West.
1972
#9628
The voyage of the Challenger.
1975
#9961
La natura delle Indie Nove: Da Christoforo Colombo a Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo.
Translated into English by Jeremy Moyle as Nature in the new world: From Christopher Columbus to Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. Primarily a detailed analysis of the work…
1979
#7190
Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.
1980 –1990
#9495
Banks' Florilegium: A publication in thirty-four parts [plus 1 supplement] of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage around the world in the H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771. The specimens were gathered and classified by The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander, and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson. 35 large folio solander boxes & 1 vol. text.
Banks' Florilegium has been called the largest fine art printing project of the 20th century. It is the first complete publication in color of the 734 folio size copperplate engravings of newly discovered plants colle…
1983
#7563
Les tours du monde des explorateurs. Les grands voyages maritimes, 1764-1843.
Translated into English by Stanley Hochman as Great voyages of discovery: Circumnavigators and scientists, 1764-1843. (New York: Facts on File, 1983).
1984
#7189
Medical travelers: Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
Anthology of selections from the writings of some of the more famous English physician travellers.
1985
#9854
Magnificent voyagers: The U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Edited by Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis.
1990
#9234
Explorers of the Amazon.
The author was a noted explorer.
1992
#7372
A history of Antarctic science.
1995
#9881
Green imperialism: Colonial expansion, tropical island edens and the origins of environmentalism 1600–1860.
"... the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, Physiocra…
1996
#7458
Bright paradise: Victorian scientific travellers.
1997
#7370
Scientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.
1998
#13325
The journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria José Nemry von Thenen de Jarmillo-Arango.
1999
#7371
Surveying the record: North American scientific exploration to 1930, edited by Edward C. Carter II.
1999
#7562
Voyages of discovery: Three centuries of natural history exploration.
Spectacular color images including many of original paintings and manuscripts.
1999
#8694
The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.
c. 2000
#9826
Smithsonian Libraries: Digital Library: Natural and physical sciences.
https://library.si.edu/digital-library/natural-and-physical-sciences "About Our Collections "The Libraries' physical collections comprise 1.5 million books and manuscripts, along with over 400,000 pieces of ephemera, …
2002
#8706
Darwin Online. The complete works of Charles Darwin, edited by John van Wyhe.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/AboutUs.html Darwin's Complete Publications Books Origin of Species, Voyage of the Beagle, Descent of Man... Articles Volcanic, Darwin-Wallace paper... Published Letters Life and letters, D…
2002
#9825
Expeditions & discoveries: Sponsored exploration and scientific discovery in the modern age.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/expeditions/index.html "The fourth in a series of online collections from Harvard University, Expeditions and Discoveries delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as well as fiel…
2002
#13447
Guide to William Bartram's travels: Following the trail of America's first great naturalist.
2004
#9861
Plants and empire: Colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world.
2004
#9920
Livingstone Online: Illuminating imperial exploration. Adrian S. Wisnicki, director.
http://livingstoneonline.org/ "The "About This Site" section of Livingstone Online describes some of the key elements of this site, including our goals, mission, and staff. The section also includes a set of essays de…