Use the Libraries' WorldCat catalog (the main search box on the library homepage) to find primary sources. Just type in your usual search terms and add one of the terms listed below!
Primary sources are increasingly available online as historical societies, museums, and other organizations digitize their primary source collections. Try adding the terms below to your online search:
Comprehensive range of national, regional, and local newspapers in Victorian Britain, in partnership with the British Library.
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18th & 19th century Africa travel books at Alcuin Library
These books are available to view by contacting Matthew Heintzelman at HMML. Links to digitized versions are included when available.
Allen, William, and T.R.H. Thomson. A Narrative of the Expedition Sent by Her Majesty’s Government to the River Niger in 1841. Two volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1848.
Volume one: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015050597452
Volume two: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3114048
Bruce, James. Voyage aux sources du Nil, en Nubie et en Abyssynie, pendant les années 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772. 13 of 14 volumes, plus atlas. Londres, 1790-1792.
An English edition in four large volumes is also available (not yet cataloged).
English edition printed in Dublin: http://find.gale.com/.../
Burton, Richard F. First Footsteps in East Africa; or, An Exploration of Harar. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856.
The print edition from 1894 is available at Alcuin Library: https://CSBSJU.on.worldcat.org/oclc/3941533
Falconbridge, A.M. Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone, during the years 1791, ---2, ----3. London: Printed for L.I. Higham, 1802.
Park, Mungo. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the year 1805. London: Printed for John Murray, 1815.
Poole, Sophia Lane. The Englishwoman in Egypt; Letters from Cairo written during a residence there in 1842, 3, & 4. Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co., 1845.
Riley, James. Loss of the American Brig Commerce, Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Month of August, 1815, with an Account of Tombuctoo, and of the Hitherto Undiscovered Great City of Wassanah. London: John Murray, 1817.
Waddington, George, and Barnard Hanbury. Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia. London: John Murray, 1822.
HathiTrust: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015067872252