Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Links: Exploration, Travel and Maps

Other pages provide pointers for contemporary reports about Japan, fictional and fantasy travel writing, and literature in general.

Explorers and Travel Accounts (published 1600 to 1726)

• Will Adams -- see Japan
• Richard Cocks - see Japan

• William Dampier (1652-1715)
  • Portrait of Dampier National Library of Australia
  • Britannia article
  • William Dampier is credited as making the first substantive English contact with Nova Hollandia...
  • "The New World Voyages of William Dampier" from the Athena Review Vol.1, no.2
  • The Voyages of William Dampier from A New Voyage Round the World (first published in London, 1697) The Miskito Indians part 2 from Athena Review
  • Dampier's Map of Central America and Miskito Coast (1697)

• Hendrik Hamel
  The Journal of Hamel and Korea

  Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1713)

  see Japan

  Samuel Purchas 1577?-1626.

  Pvrchas-his Pilgrimes : in five bookes. London, Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1625.
  

  The Voyage to Asia by James Lancaster, 1600.

  Joao Rodrigues, 1558-1633.

  Alexander Selkirk/Robinson Crusoe

  • Britannica article
  • Alexander Selkirk: The Real Robinson Crusoe: part 1 and 2

• Columbus and the Age of Discovery
• Christopher Columbus Jack Lynch, Univ of Penn
• Mandeville
• Marco Polo

General and Collected Exploration Sites

• Discoverers Web
• Australia's Early Exploration and Colonization
• European Discoveries in the South Pacific and Indo-West Pacific
• Zur Geschichte von Australien

Pirates

• Pirates, Privateers,Buccaneers
• Pyrates of the Caribbean
• Voyages and exploration during the age of piracy: an annotated sale catalogue of books

Maritime History & Sea Stories

• The Maritime History Virtual Archives
• Nautical Nonfiction Adventure Booklist
• Electronic Nautical Books Fiction and Non-Fiction Available on the Internet
• Narrative Books (sea-stories)
• Covey Crump - a collection of Naval slang, abbreviations, legends and historical tit-bits
• Glossary of nautical terms (circa. 1814)

• Discovery and Exploration Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress
• Geography and Maps: Special Collections Library of Congress
• Working with Maps USGS educational site on exploration
• Cartographic Images
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection A feature of UT Library Online
• OSSHE Historical & Cultural Atlas Resource
• Heritage Map Museum 15th to 19th Century Original Antique Maps
• Maps of the New World
  • Dampier's Map of Central America and Miskito Coast (1697)
• Rare Map Collection - The New World University of Georgia Libraries
• Rare Maps Held in Research Collections McMaster University Library
• Historical Maps & Globes Harvard Map Collection
• Mercator's World
• Steve Bartrick Antique Maps
• Map History / History of Cartography - "THE Gateway to the Subject"
• The Formation of a Continent