📚 Discovery and Exploration

Books with discovery and exploration on their catalogue record, first published between 1478 and 2002, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject discovery and exploration in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 22,079 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Letters from missions (North America).	Jesuits.	1852	73
	The history of America	William Robertson	1777	68
	A voyage to the Pacific Ocean	James Cook	1784	67
	Geographia	Ptolemy	1478	65
	Salmagundi	Washington Irving	1807	60
	The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada	Francis Parkman	1870	55
	Discovery of the Great West	Francis Parkman	1869	53
	The discovery of India	Jawaharlal Nehru	1946	44
	Histoire du Canada	F.-X. Garneau	1852	41
	Como eu atravessei África do Atlântico ao mar Índico	Serpa Pinto	1881	39
	Africa and the discovery of America	Leo Wiener	1920	38
	Geography made easy	Jedidiah Morse	1784	36
	Los conquistadores españoles	F. A. Kirkpatrick	1934	33
	Magellan	Stefan Zweig	1938	33
	Into the Wild	Jon Krakauer	1996	32
	Alone	Richard Evelyn Byrd	1938	31
	Arctic Dreams	Barry Lopez	1986	31
	The history of spiritualism	Arthur Conan Doyle	1926	29
	The conquest of Florida by Hernando de Soto	Theodore Irving	1835	27
	Australia twice traversed	Ernest Giles	1889	27
	Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa	Mungo Park	1799	21
	Pioneers of the Pacific coast	Agnes C. Laut	1915	20
	Christopher Columbus, mariner	Samuel Eliot Morison	1942	20
	Travels in the Interior of Africa	Mungo Park	1858	18
	The fatal impact	Alan Moorehead	1966	18
	The White Nile	Alan Moorehead	1960	17
	The Lost City of Z	David Grann	2000	17
	Ferdinand de Soto	John S. C. Abbott	1873	16
	The dawn of Canadian history	Stephen Leacock	1914	16
	1421	Gavin Menzies	2002	15

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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