3 vols. Extensive chronologies of various imperial empires (Austro-Hungarian, Belgian, British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Ottoman, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, and United States) provide context for the diverse entries

2 vols. See also: Oxford Companion to World Exploration by David Buisseret, and: Encyclopedia of Women's Travel and Exploration by Patricia D. Netzley.

Continued by: Encyclopedia of Exploration, 1800 to 1850 : a Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel and Colonization Between the Years 1800 and 1850.

Continues: Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel and Colonization from the Earliest Times to the Year 1800. Continued by: Encyclopedia of Exploration, 1850 to 1940: The Oceans, Islands and Polar Regions: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel and Colonization in the Oceans, the Islands, New Zealand and the Polar Regions, and: Encyclopedia of Exploration, 1850 to 1940: Continental Exploration.

Continues in part: Continues in part Encyclopedia of Exploration, 1800 to 1850: A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the History and Literature of Exploration, Travel and Colonization between the Years 1800 and 1850.

2nd ed. Online version of the 6 volume original.

Online version of the 3 volume original. Signed entries with bibliographies. Bibliographies not annotated. Includes thematic outline of contents, glossary, selection of primary sources, and a detailed index.

2 vols. Includes subject index (e.g. Mexican-American War) and geographical index (e.g. Cuba). The digital collection, North American Women's Letters and Diaries is based in part on this bibliography.

Organized alphabetically by author, with indexes to place, and occupation of writer.

Continued by the journal Merchant Explorer. Catalog of the James Ford Bell Library.

Actual editions of the travel guides can be found in the Online Catalog and in the HathiTrust. This bibliography is actually the guide to a microfiche set, but works as a bibliography as well.

Has a chapter of "Contemporary Narratives" (chapter 5), which includes travelers' accounts.

Includes primary source accounts.

5 vols.: v. 1. 1482-1590.--v. 2. 1590-1625.--v. 3. 1626-1676.--v. 4. 1677-1752.--v. 5. 1753-1884. Index.

See especially Appendix I, Collections of Voyages and Travels, with contents listings for each collection, and Appendix II, Government, Anonymous, and Miscellaneous Publications organized by geographic subject. Also available online for keyword searching.

7 vols. Mostly predates this course. See also the abridged version: The literature of the encounter : a selection of books from European Americana : catalogue of an exhibition.

Includes both primary and secondary sources.

Covers all three branches of the United States federal government, with heaviest emphasis on records of the Executive branch.

Directory of online resources.

A guide to images in published works. Organized by time period and then country. Coverage begins pre-European colonization.

Also available online.

Includes both primary and secondary sources.

Actually an index, not a bibliography. National Geographic is also indexed from 1890- in Reader's Guide Retrospective. Full color reproductions of every issue are also now available online

Online version of the 2 volume original.

Section on "Description and travel" and much primary source material listed in sections like "Jesuit Missions".

3 vols.: v. 1. The old world.--v. 2. The new world. --v. 3. Great Britain

Organized by broad region and then by subject. Includes author index and geographic index. Vol. 1. The British Empire generally, and Africa.- v. 2. The Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the South Pacific, general voyages and travels, and Arctic and Antarctic regions.- v. 3. The Dominion of Canada and its provinces, the Dominion of Newfoundland, the West Indies and Colonial America- v. 4. The Mediterranean colonies, the Middle East, Indian Empire, Burma, Ceylon, British Malaya, East Indian Islands, and the Far East.

Supplements the Subject catalogue of the Library of the Royal Empire Society (see above) and the Biography Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Commonwealth Society. With supplements. 7 vols.: v. 1. British Commonwealth and Europe. Asia: in general, Mideast, India.--v. 2. Asia: other Asian areas. Africa: Africa in general, North Africa.--v. 3. Africa: West Africa, East Africa.--v. 4. Africa: noncommonwealth Africa, including former foreign colonies, Republic of South Africa, other southern African countries.--v. 5. The Americas.--v. 6. Australia, New Zealand, Pacific.--v. 7. Biography. Voyages and travels. World War I. World War II.

Includes a geographical index.

15 vols. Vols. 1 and 2 cover library accessions prior to 1950.

Bibliography of works printed in Spanish America, or works about Spanish America. Organized by year of publication, and then alphabetically by title. Includes book-length introductory essay and an author index. Many of the titles in this bibliography are available in a microfilm set called Medina's Biblioteca hispano-americana, available from CRL through Interlibrary Loan.

Vols. 183 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Vol. 189 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

Includes an index with place names.

"The men and women included are, in the main, those born in, or actively connected with, countries of the Commonwealth, and persons in the United Kingdom who have been of significance in Imperial affairs. There are numerous explorers and travellers from many nations, and the Library's coverage of comparative colonization is reflected in major figures from the Imperial history of other European powers" (p. vii). Indexed by country.

2 vols.

3 vols.

Short biographies of about 320 world explorers.

10 vols. Coverage is mostly twentieth century. Biographical dictionary of French colonials (e.g. administrators, explorers, missionaries, anthropologists. . .).

A guide to unpublished archival material, but useful also for identifying names of residencias, as a starting point for biographical research.

2nd ed. See also: Historical Atlas of Exploration, 1492-1600 by Angus Konstam (Call No. Q. 910.9 K837h), and: Atlas of Exploration by Shona Grimbly.

Chronologies, with biographies of "300 notable figures in Latin American history".

Compiles information drawn from published gazetteers, atlases, and encyclopedias, like Cambridge World Gazetteer, Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Britannica Book of the Year,Times Atlas of World History, GEOnet Names Server (United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency), and United Nations Terminology Bulletin. Good source of information on name and spelling variants for places around the world. Historical information is far from complete (consult local gazetteers for more in depth information), but it makes a good starting point.