BIBLIOGRAPHY of Books and Articles related to Exploration of the New World.
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Armstrong, Alexander. “Observation on Naval Hygiene and Scurvy, More Particularly as the Latter Appeared During the Polar Voyage.” Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery 22 (1858): 295–305.
Bartholomew, M, “James Lind and Scurvy: A Revaluation.” Journal for Maritime Research, British National Maritime Museum, January 2002.
Burnett, D. Graham. Masters of All They Surveyed: Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado. Chicago: Univerity of Chicago Press, 2000.
Carpenter, Kenneth. The History of Scurvy and vitamin C. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987
Cook, Alan and Clive Holland. The Exploration of Northern Canada, 500 to 1920: A Chronology. Toronto: The Arctic History Press, 1978.
Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian exchange: biological and cultural consequences of 1492. Westport CT: Greenwood Publishing. 1972.
Dear, I. C. B., and Peter Kemp, eds. The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Delgado, James P. Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage. New York: Checkmark Books, 1999.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies. New York: Norton & Company. 1997.
Earle, Peter. Sailors: English Merchant Seaman 1650-1775. London: Methuen, 1998.
Energy, Mines and Resources Canada. Canada Exploration 1497 - 1650. The National Atlas of Canada, 5th Edition. Ottawa, 1991.
Glynn, Ian & Jennifer. The life and death of smallpox. London: Profile Books. 2004.
Goetzmann, W. H., and Williams, G. The Atlas of North American Exploration. New York: Prentice Hall, 1992.
Goetzmann, William H., Explorers and Empire, New York: Vintage Books, 1966.
Harrisse, Henry. The Discovery of North America: A Critical, Documentary, and Historic Investigation, Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1961. (first published 1892).
Hayes, Derek. America Discovered: A Historical Atlas of North American Exploration. Vancouver, B. C.: Douglas & McIntyre, Ltd., 2004.
Hayes, Derek, Historical Atlas of the Arctic. Vancouver, B. C: Douglas & McIntyre, Ltd., 2003.
Jones, J. W. Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent. First series No. VII (reprinted) New York: Burt Franklin, 1850.
Lind, James. A Treatise on the Scurvy. London: A. Miller. 1757.
May, William E. A History of Marine Navigation, Henley-on Thames: G. T. Foulis and Co., 1973.
McCoy, Roger M. On the Edge: Mapping North America’s Coast. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Miller, Theodore R. Graphic History of the Americas, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1969.
Morison. Samuel E. The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages
A. D. 500 - 1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Morison, S. E., The European discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, 1492-1616. New York: Oxford University Press. 1974.
Morison, Samuel E. The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. (An abridged version of the previous two)
Nickerson, Sheila. Disappearance: A Map. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
Peters, Stephanie True. EPIDEMIC! Smallpox in the New World. New York: Benchmark Books, 2005.
Phillips, P. C., Smurr, J. W. The Fur Trade. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1961.
Sale, Richard. Polar Reaches: The History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration. Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, 2002.
Savours, Ann. The Search for the North West Passage. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Shoumatoff, Alex. Legends of the American Desert. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1997.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic. New York: Collier Books, 1962.
Thomson, George M. The North-West Passage. London: Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1975.
Waters, David. The Art of Navigation in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times. Greenwich, England: National Maritime Museum, 1978.
Williams, Glyn. Voyages of Delusion: The North-West Passage in the Age of Reason. London: Harper Collins, Publishers, 2002.
Yount, Lisa, The history of medicine, San Diego: Lucent Books, 2002
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Fardy, B. D. John Cabot: The Discovery of Newfoundland. St. John’s Newfoundland: Creative Publishers, 1994.
Firstbrook, Peter. The Voyage of the Matthew: John Cabot and the Discovery of North America. London: BBC Books, 1997.
Fuson, Robert H. The Log of Christopher Columbus. Camden, ME. International Marine Publishing Company. 1987.
Leacock, Stephen. The Mariner of St. Malo. Toronto: Glasgow, Brook and Company, 1920.
Mann, Charles C. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus created. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2011.
Markham, C. R. Introduction; in The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career. London: Hakluyk Society, no. 90, 1894, reprinted 2010.
Martyr D'Anghiera, Peter. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1, (1912, written ca. 1504–1526).
Morison, Samuel E. Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1942.
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Best, George. The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher: In Search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A. D. 1576-8. With Introduction by Sir Richard Collinson. New York: Burt Franklin, Publisher, 1963. (Reprinted from the 1867 edition of Hakluyt’s Voyages.)
Díaz, Bernal. The conquest of New Spain. New York: Penguin Books. 1963. Original book published as The true history of the conquest of New Spain. 1568.
Flint, Richard and Shirley C. Flint, Esteban the Moor, retrieved from newmexicohistory.org/people/esteban-the-moor, (date not given).
Gough, Barry M. Strait of Anian. Canadian encyclopedia, February, 2006. retrieved from www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/strait-of-anian/
Goodwin, Robert, Crossing the continent, 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009.
Green, Meg. Jacques Cartier: Navigating the St Lawrence River. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2004.
Habert, Jacques. When New York was called Angoulême. New York: Transocean Press, 1949
Hakluyt, Richard, and Edmund Goldsmid. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation. London: E. & G. Goldsmid, 1885.
Hakluyt, Richard. Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage. London: Cassell and Company, 1886.
Horowitz, Tony. A voyage long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 2008.
Payne, E. J., and Beazley, C. R. Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen. London: Oxford University Press, 1907.
Preston, Douglas. Cities of Gold: A journey across the American southwest. University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
Shaer, Matthew. Ponce de Leon never searched for the Fountain of Youth. Smithsonian Magazine, June, 2013.
Whitfield, Peter. Sir Francis Drake. New York: New York University Press. 2004
Wroth, L. C. The Voyages of Giovanni da Verrazzano, 1524 - 1528. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
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Asher, George M. Henry Hudson the Navigator: The Original Documents in Which His Career is Recorded, Collected, Partly Translated, and Annotated. New York: Burt Franklin, Publisher, 1860.
Davis, John, A. H. Markham, J. Jane. C. Coote. and E. Wright. The Voyages and Works of John Davis, the Navigator. London: The Hakluyt Society, No. 59, 1880.
Johnson, Donald S. Charting the Sea of Darkness: the Four Voyages of Henry Hudson. Camden, Maine: International Marine, 1993.
Markham, Clements R., William Baffin. The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1881.
Markham, Albert H. The voyages and works of John Davis the navigator. New York: Burt Franklin. (Reprinted, originally published by the Hakluyt Society), 1970.
Pricket, Abacuk. A Journal of Mr. Hudson’s Last Voyage for the Discovery of a North-west Passage. Navigantium Ataque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. vol. 1, p 567- 571.
Vail, Philip. The Magnificent Adventures of Henry Hudson. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1965.
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Hearne, Samuel. A journey from Prince of Wales Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean. Toronto: The Champlain Society. 1911.
Hearne, Samuel. A Journey From Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean. NewYork: Da Capo Press, 1968.
Gilbert, George; Christine Holmes (ed). Captain Cook’s Final Voyage: The Journal of Midshipman George Gilbert. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii. 1982.
Mowat, Farley. Coppermine Journey: An account of a great adventure—from the journals of Samuel Hearne. Boston: Little, Brown & Company. 1958.
Sheppe, Walter, First man west: Alexander's Mackenzie's journal of his voyage to the Pacific coast of Canada in 1793. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1962.
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Allen, Paul; Meriwether Lewis; William Clark. A history of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark to the sources of the Missouri thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean performed during the years 1804-5-6. New York: Bradford and Inskeep. 1814.
Back, George. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River and Along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. London: Adamant Media Corporation, Elibron Classics Replica Edition, 2005
Barrow, John. A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions. London: John Murray, 1818.
Barrow, John. Voyages of Discovery and Research Within the Arctic Regions From the Year 1818 to the Present Time, London: John Murray, 1846.
Berton, Pierre. The Arctic Grail: the Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909, New York:Viking Penguin, 1988.
DeVoto, Bernard, The Journals of Lewis and Clark. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1953
Egan, Ferol. Frémont: Explorer for a Restless Nation. Reno: University of Nevada Press. 1977.
Fleming, Fergus. Barrow’s Boys. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998.
Franklin, John. Narrative to the Shores of the Polar Sea, 1819, 1820, 1821, and 1822. London: John Murray, 1828.
Franklin, John. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827, Includes John Richardson. Account of the Progress of a Detachment to the Eastward. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle. 1971. First printed, 1828.
Hood, Robert. To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1821: The Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood, Midshipman with Franklin. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1974.
Kane, Elisha Kent. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856.
M’Clintock, Francis L. The voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas: A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.
McIntosh, Elaine Nelson. The Lewis and Clark expedition: Food, nutrition, and health. Sioux Falls: The Center for Western Studies. 2003.
McGoogan, Ken. Fatal Passage: the True Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers. 2002.
McGoogan, Ken. Lady Franklin’s Revenge. Toronto: Harper Collins Publishers, Ltd., 2006.
Mowat, Farley. Ordeal by Ice. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, Ltd, 1960.
Nares, George S. The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition. London: John Murray, 1876.
Nares, George S. Narrative of Voyage to Polar Sea During 1875-6. London: Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1878.
Neatby, Leslie H. The Search For Franklin. New York: Walker & Company, 1970.
Nickerson, Sheila. Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Saved the Polaris Expedition. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002.
Osborn, Sherard. Stray Leaves From an Arctic Journal: Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions in Search of John Franklin’s Expedition, in the Years 1850-51. New York: George Putnam, 1852.
Osborn, Sherard, The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. Investigator, Captain R. M’Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1852, 1854. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857.
Parry, W. E. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage. London: John Murray, 1824.
Parry, W. E. Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage. London: John Murray, 1826.
Parry, Edward. Memoirs of Rear Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry. London: Longman, 1858.
Paton, B.C. Lewis and Clark: Doctors in the wilderness. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing. 2001
Richardson, John. Arctic Searching Expedition. New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1852.
Richardson, John. The Last of the Arctic Voyages, London: Lovell Reeve, 1855.
Ross, John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a Northwest Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: A. W. Webster, 1835.
Rundall, Thomas. Narratives of Voyages Toward the North-West. London: Hakluyt Society, 1849.
Simpson, Alexander. 1845. The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson, the Arctic Discoverer. London, 1845.
Simpson Thomas. 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. London: Richard Bentley, 1843.
Sutherland, Peter C. Journal of a Voyage in Baffin’s Bay and Barrow Straits in the Years 1850-1851, Under the Command of Mr. William Penny. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1852.
Sverdrup, Otto. New Land. London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1904.
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Hunt, William R. Stef: A Biography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986.
Peary, R. E. Nearest the Pole: A Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S. S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1907.
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions, New York: The MacMillan Company, 1921.