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VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists

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1995 CEGreen imperialism: Colonial expansion, tropical island edens and the origins of environmentalism 1600–1860.
GROVE, Richard Hugh (1955 – )
GROVE, Richard Hugh (1955 – )
1907 CEHamilton'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, Alexander (1712 – 1756)
HAMILTON, Alexander (1712 – 1756)
1854 CEHimalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. 2 vols.
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
1757 CEHistoire naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages. Avec la relation abrégée d'un voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53.
ADANSON, Michel (1727 – 1806)
ADANSON, Michel (1727 – 1806)
1590 CEHistoria natural y moral de las Indias.
ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600)
ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600)
1761 CEHistory of the travels and adventures of the Chevalier John Taylor, ophthalmiater; pontifical imperial and royal to the Kings of Poland, Denmark, Sweden, the electors of the Holy Empire, the princes of Saxegotha, Mecklenburg, Anspach, Brunswick, Parma, Modena... Addressed to his only son.
TAYLOR, John (1703 – 1772)
1858 CEImpressions of Western Africa. With remarks on the diseases of the climate and a report on the peculiarities of trade up the rivers in the Bight of Biafra.
HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
1875 CEInfluence de la pression de l’air sur la vie de l’homme. Climats d'altitude et climats du montagne. 2 vols.
JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
2019 CEJohann Reinhold Forster and the making of natural history on Cook's Second Voyage, 1772–1775
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798) MARISS, Anne
2010 CEJoseph Hooker Correspondence Project. Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
1714 CE​–1725 CEJournal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, faites par l'ordre du roi sur les côtes orientales de l'Amerique meridionale, & dans les Indes occidentales, depuis l'année 1707, jusques en 1712. 3 vols.
FEUILLÉE, Louis (1660 – 1732)
1751 CE​–1752 CEJournal du voyage fait par ordre du Roi, a l'équateur, servant d'introduction historique a la mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien. Supplément au Journal historique du voyage a l'Équateur: et au livre de la Mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien, servant de réponse à quelques objections. 2 vols.
LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de (1701 – 1774)
LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de (1701 – 1774)
1815 CEJournal of a mission to the interior of Africa, in the year 1805. Together with other documents, official and private, relating to the same mission. To which is prefixed an account of the life of Mr. Park.
PARK, Mungo (1771 – 1806)
PARK, Mungo (1771 – 1806)
1811 CEJournal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809.
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785 – 1865)
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785 – 1865)
1790 CEJournal of a voyage to New South Wales with sixty five plates of non descript. animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions
WHITE, John (1756 – 1832)
WHITE, John (1756 – 1832) STONE, Sarah (1760 – 1844)
1839 CEJournal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle ....
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
1896 CEJournal 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.
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
1841 CEJournals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39...describing many new discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical conditions of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. 2 vols.
GREY, Sir George (1812 – 1898)
GREY, Sir George (1812 – 1898)
1975 CELa natura delle Indie Nove: Da Christoforo Colombo a Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo.
GERBI, Antonello (1904 – 1976)
1811 CELachesis Lapponica, or a tour in Lapland, now first published from the original manuscript journal of the celebrated Linnaeus; by James Edward Smith. 2 vols.
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
1553 CELes observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouuées en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges, redigées en trois livres.
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
1983 CELes tours du monde des explorateurs. Les grands voyages maritimes, 1764-1843.
BROSSE, Jacques (1922 – 2008)
2004 CELivingstone Online: Illuminating imperial exploration. Adrian S. Wisnicki, director.
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873) WISNICKI, Adrian S.
1985 CEMagnificent voyagers: The U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Edited by Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis.
VIOLA, Herman J. MARGOLIS, Carolyn
1917 CEMarching on Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa).
YOUNG, Francis Brett (1884 – 1954)
YOUNG, Francis Brett (1884 – 1954)
1801 CEMédecine du voyageur; ou avis sur les moyens de conserver la santé, et de remédier aux accidens et aux maladies auxquels on est exposé dans les voyages, tant par terre que par mer. Suivie d'un essai de médecine pratique sur les voyages, considérés comme remèdes. 3 vols.
DUPLANIL, Jean-Denis (1740 – 1802)
1843 CEMedical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-42, comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination.
MCWILLIAM, James Ormiston (1808 – 1862)
MCWILLIAM, James Ormiston (1808 – 1862)
1926 CEMedical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925
STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948) SHATTUCK, George Cheever (1879 – 1972)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982) WHEELER, Ralph Emerson (1901 – 1980)
1984 CEMedical travelers: Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
SPILLANE, John David (1909 – 1985)
1822 CEMemoirs of the military and political life of Napoleon Bonaparte, from his origin, to his death on the rock of St. Helena. Comprising a just outline of his splendid and unexampled military career, from his first entering the regiment La Fere as lieutenant, to its tremendous termination at the battle of Waterloo; a detailed view of his extraordinary return to France from Elba, and the events of his ensuing reign of 100 days. Embracing also an authentic narrative of the conduct of Napoleon during his voyage to St. Helena, and while in exile, and of the events attending his confinement, sickness, and death, with numerous private documents, now first published in this country, and collected chiefly from the writings of Dr. B.E. O'Meara, Surgeon to Napoleon at St. Helena.
O'MEARA, Barry Edward (1786 – 1836)
O'MEARA, Barry Edward (1786 – 1836)
1857 CEMissionary travels and researches in South Africa.
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
1818 CENarrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817; containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin and observations on the countries which it visited.
ABEL, Clarke (1789 – 1826)
1840 CENarrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history, antiquities, etc, of the countries visited. 2 vols.
WILDE, Sir William Robert Wills (1815 – 1876)
WILDE, Sir William Robert Wills (1815 – 1876)
1840 CENarrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history, antiquities, etc. of the countries visited. 2 vols.
WILDE, Sir William Robert Wills (1815 – 1876)
WILDE, Sir William Robert Wills (1815 – 1876)
1831 CENarrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's strait, to co-operate with the polar expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey ... in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28.
BEECHEY, Frederick William (1796 – 1856)
BEECHEY, Frederick William (1796 – 1856)
1844 CENarrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. 5 vols. plus atlas.
WILKES, Charles (1798 – 1877)
WILKES, Charles (1798 – 1877)
1852 CENarrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley ...during the years 1846-1850, including discoveries and surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, etc. to which is added the account of Mr. E. B. Kennedy's Expedition for the exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. 2 vols.
MACGILLIVRAY, John (1821 – 1867)
MACGILLIVRAY, John (1821 – 1867)
1756 CENatural history of Aleppo and parts adjacent.
RUSSELL, Alexander (1715 – 1768)
RUSSELL, Alexander (1715 – 1768)
2013 CENaturalists at sea: Scientific travelers from Dampier to Darwin.
WILLIAMS, Glyndwr
1672 CENew-Englands rarities discovered: In birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores; also A perfect description of an Indian squa, in all her bravery, with a poem not improperly conferr'd upon her; lastly, a chronological table of the most remarkable passage in that country amongst the English.
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1763 CENicolai Josephi Jacquin Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia, in qua ad Linneanum systema determinatae descriptaeque sistuntur plantse illae, quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo, aliisque, et in vicinae continentis parte, observavit rariores; : adjectis iconibus in solo natali delineatis. 2 vols.
JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)
JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)
2013 CENikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants: Botanical expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the publication of the Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.
MADRIÑÁN RESTROPO, Santiago
JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)
JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)
1879 CENotes by a naturalist on the Challenger; being an account of observations made during the Voyage of H.M.S.Challenger round the world in the years 1872-1876. Under the Command of Capt. Sir G. S.Nares and Capt. F. T. Thomson.
MOSELEY, Henry Nottidge (1844 – 1891)
1908 CENotes 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.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
SPRUCE, Richard (1817 – 1893)
SPRUCE, Richard (1817 – 1893)
1871 CENotes on the natural history of the Strait of Magellan and the west coast of Patagonia made during the voyage of HMS 'Nassau' in the years 1866, 67, 68, & 69.
CUNNINGHAM, Robert Oliver (1841 – 1918)
1778 CEObservations made during a voyage round the world, on physical geography, natural history, and ethic philosophy. Especially on 1. The earth and its strata, 2. Water and the ocean, 3. The atmosphere, 4. The changes of the globe, 5. Organic bodies, and 6. The human species.
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
1825 CEObservations on Italy.
BELL, John (1763 – 1820)
BELL, John (1763 – 1820)
1751 CEObservations on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matter worthy of notice. Made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada. To which is annex'd, a curious account of the cataracts at Niagara, by Mr. Peter Kalm....
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777)
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777) KALM, Pehr [Pietari; Peter] (1716 – 1779)
1859 CEOn the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. Offprint from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, Vol. III (Flora Tasmaniae), part I (June, 1859).
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
1934 CEOnchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV
STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982) SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987) OCHOA, Miguel Muños