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With an introd. by Dee Brown & wood-engravings by Gillian Tyler.

Translated by A. Chapman from a speech delivered in Washington in 1879. First published in 1925 under title: Chief Joseph's own story. (wood engravings).

In 1684 Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was planning an expedition to establish a French settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Joutel met La Salle in Rouen and signed on as his "intendent" or confidential assistant. After a harrowing…

Travels to the source of the Missouri river and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by order of the government of the United States, in the years 1804, 1805, and 1806. By Captains Lewis and Clarke. Published from the…

Shown here is the titlepage from a reprint of the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela's Description of the World. He described the world as it was perceived by the ancient Romans.

His work is presented as a circumnavigation of the known world at that…

During a four months' residence in a valley of the Marquesas.


This is the first American edition of Melville's novel set in the Marquesas Islands.

A sequel to the "Residence in the Marquesas Islands"

This is the first English edition of the sequel to Melville's Typee.

Robert Morden was a geographer and a prolific maker of maps and globes. Displayed here are maps from the first edition of his Geography Rectified.

This geographical primer was reprinted in 1688, 1693, and 1700. In addition to containing a small…

As more people began settling in America and coming more in contact with Native Americans a new genre of fiction sprang up, the captivity narrative. These were accounts of people, often women and children, who were taken captive after violent…