Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Explorers
A memoir of Sebastian Cabot : with a review of the history of maritime discovery London : Hurst, Chance, 1831. 333 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F8 C11 - Akins
Illustrated by documents from the rolls, now first publishedition Attributed to Richard Biddle--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.
Explorers — America
America — Discovery and exploration — Italian.
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African exploits : the diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892 / edited by Roy MacLaren. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. 423 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DT363.2 S73 A3 1998
Explorers — Zaire — Diaries
Explorers — Canada — Diaries.
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Amerigo and the New World : the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci / translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onís. [1st ed.] New York : Knopf, 1955. 323, ix pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F6 V63 Ar3
Explorers — America — Biography
Explorers — Spain — Biography
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.
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Champlain / Joe C.W. Armstrong. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1987. xviii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5061.1 C5 A75 - Open Shelf
Includes index. Maps on lining papers.
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Explorers — France — Biography
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
America — Discovery and exploration — French.
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Henry Youle Hind, 1823-1908 / W.L. Morton. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1980. ix, 161 pages : port. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE22 H662 M891
Includes index.
Geologists — Canada — Biography
Explorers — Canada — Biography.
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History of Cavelier de La Salle, 1643-1687 : explorations in the valleys of the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi, taken from his letters, reports to King Louis XIV, also the reports of several of his associates, official acts and contemporaneous documents / Paul Chesnel ; translated from the French by Andrée Chesnel Meany. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. vii, 232 pages : fold. maps. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 L33 C42
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Mississippi River Valley — History — To 1803.
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La découverte de Terre-Neuve Montréal : Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1964. 129 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F6 B73 D35
Bibliographical references included in Notes (pages 83-123.
Explorers, Portuguese
Newfoundland — Discovery and exploration.
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Nicolas Denys, sa vie et son oeuvre / par Clarence-Joseph d'Entremont. Yarmouth, Nouvelle-Ecosse : Impr. Lescarbot, 1982. 623 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.9 D414 D417 - Open Shelf
Includes index. Includes a reprint of the text of: Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique septentrionale / Nicolas Denys. Paris : L. Billaine, 1672.
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Explorers — France — Biography
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Acadia — Discovery and exploration — French.
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Robert Challe : un destin une oeuvre / textes et documents inedits presentes par Frederic Deloffre. Saint-Germain, Paris : SEDES, 1992. 256 pages ; 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G370 C437 D361
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Samuel de Champlain / Stan Garrod. Don Mills, ON. : Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1981. 62, [2] pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5061.1 C5 G243 - Open Shelf
Includes index. On spine: C 75.
Explorers — France — Biography
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
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The explorers of North America, 1492-1806 / by John Bartlet Brebner. New York : Macmillan, 1933. xv, 502 pages, [4] folded pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 B74
Explorers
America — Discovery and exploration
North America — History.
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The fatal river : the life and death of La Salle / by Frances Gaither. New York : H. Holt, 1931. 303 pages, [12] pages of plates : maps ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 L33 G12
Map on lining-papers.
Explorers — Canada — Biography.
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Pullen, William J.S., 1813-1887
The Pullen Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin : the original diaries, logs, letters of Commander W.J.S. Pullen / selected and introduced by H.F. Pullen. Toronto : Arctic History Press, 1979. 230 pages, [8] leaves of plates (4 fold.) : ill., fold. maps ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3961 P84 1979 - Open Shelf
Includes index. Library has copy number 272.
Franklin, John, — Sir, — 1786-1847
Pullen, William J.S., — 1813-1887
Explorers — Arctic regions — Biography
Arctic coast (Canada) — Discovery and exploration
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The works of Samuel de Champlain Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1971. 6 v. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm + portfolio.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 B592
Text in English and French. Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.pages Biggar--v. 1, pages [v].
Biggar, H. P. (Henry Percival), 1872-1938.
Explorers — France — Biography
Explorers — Canada — Biography
First Nations of North America — Canada — History
America — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
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Victorian explorer : the African diaries of Captain William G. Stairs, 1887-1892 / edited by Janina M. Konczacki. Halifax : Nimbus, 1994. xv, 319 pages : illustrations, maps.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DT363.2 S73 A3 1994
Explorers — Zaire — Diaries
Explorers — Canada — Diaries
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887-1889 — Personal narratives, Canadian
Katanga Expedition, 1891-1892 — Personal narratives, Canadian.
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