Texts
| Author | Title | Author's Bibliography |
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| Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary | “A Cruise Through the Galapagos” |  |
| Allan, Robert C. | “Remarks on Some of the Galapagos Islands” | |
| Beebe, Walter S. | Recollections of the Crash of a B-24 | |
| Berlanga, Tomás de | “Letter to His Majesty . . .” | |
| Burney, James | A Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea (Volumes 1 & 4) | |
| [Byron, George Anson] | Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands . . . | |
| Colnett, James | A Voyage to the South Atlantic . . . | |
| Cooke, Edward | A Voyage to the South Sea . . . | |
| Coulter, John | Adventures in the Pacific | |
| Cowley, William Ambrosia | A Short Account of my Voyage … | |
| The Voyage of Capt. Cowley. Papist. | ||
| Cowley's Voyage Round the World. (Sloane MS. 1050 excerpt) | ||
| Cowley's Voyage Round the Globe | ||
| Dampier, William | Ms. letter: Letter to Colonel William Helyar | |
| Adventures of William Dampier, New Voyage Round the World (Galápagos sections only) | ||
| A New Voyage Round the World (complete text) | ||
| Darwin, Charles | Charles Darwin's Diary | |
| Journal of Researches … | ||
| Comparison of Chapter Titles in Various Journal Editions | ||
| Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands … (Galápagos chapter only, with illustrations) | ||
| 2007: “Darwin in Galápagos” | ||
| Darwin Foundation et al | News Releases pertaining to Jessica Oil Spill | |
| Davis, William M. | Nimrod of the Sea | |
| Delano, Amasa | Narrative of Voyages and Travels | |
| Ecuador, Republic of | Decrees pertaining to the Galápagos Islands | |
| Emory, Jerry | Oral Histories of Galapagueños | |
| Ewing, Ray S. | Letter to C. T. Munson | |
| Finsen, Walter | Debunking the Baroness | |
| FitzRoy, Robert | HMS Beagle Logs (Excerpts from Captain's, Master's, Ship's logs) | |
| Narrative of the Surveying Voyages . . . | ||
| Fortescue, Granville | “At the Crossroads” | |
| Geller, Dan & Dayna Goldfine | The Galápagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (Press Release describing film) |
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| Gerlach, Fred | Letter to his family | |
| Grant, K. Thalia | Writing On Walls | |
| Hale, Edward Everett | “The Man Without A Country” | |
| Hall, Basil | Extracts from a Journal . . . | |
| Hall, Dunwoodie | “The Lust-Mad Empress of Galapagos” | |
| Harris, John | Navigantium Itinerantium Bibliotheca | |
| Harris, Paul | “Galápagos 1946—Last Flight Out” | |
| Harrsch, Don | Filiate Science Antrorse: Together with Science we Move Forward | |
| Hervey, Jr., William Rhodes | “Captured at Sea by a Murderous Crew” | |
| Hodges, G. Charles | “The Pacific's Key to Panama” | |
| Hoff, Stein | Drømmen om Galapagos (The Galápagos Dream) | |
| Jäger, Heinke | Observations of Theodor Wolf, August - November 1875 & May - July 1878 | |
| Kelly, James | “…Discovery of the … Pyracies of Capt. James Kelly” | |
| Lange, Vernon | The Wittmers of Floreana | |
| Life Magazine | Epitaph for the ‘Albatross’ | |
| Lundh, Jacob P. | “Galápagos: A Brief History” | |
| “The Galápagos Islands Flag and Coat of Arms” | ||
| “The Last Days of a Paradise” | ||
| “The Last Cruise of the Schooner Chance” | ||
| Macy, William. H. | “King Pat, the Crusoe of the Galapagos” | |
| Malaspina, Alejandro | The Malaspina Expedition: … | |
| Mandel, Leon | Leon Mandel—Field Museum Galapagos Expedition | |
| Markham, Clements | Discovery of the Galapagos Islands | |
| Matthews, Ira V. | Collection of 81 War Stories … | |
| Melville, Herman | The Encantadas, or Enchanted Islands | |
| Miami Daily News | “Love, Jealousy Add to Mystery of Death on ‘Enchanted Isles’ ” | |
| Mielche, Hakon | Let's See if the World is Round | |
| Moll, Herman | A View of the Coasts, Countries and Islands … | |
| Morrell, Benjamin | Narrative of Four Voyages | |
| New York Times | “Capture of the George Howland” | |
| Doubts Identity of Galapagos Pair | ||
| Nickerson, Thomas | Account of the Ship Essex Sinking | |
| Nordlohne, Marcel | The Seven-Year Search for Nicholas O. Lawson | |
| Palmer, Edwin O. | Third Galapagos Trip of the Velero III | |
| Petit-Thouars, Abel du | Voyage Around the World on the Frigate La Vénus | |
| Pettersson, Hans | “Isles of Eternal Spring” | |
| Picking, Sherwood | Letter to Captain Dudley W. Knox | |
| Porter, Captain David | Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean | |
| Reimer, Ernest G. | A Social Visit Extraordinary | |
| Reynolds, Jeremiah | Voyage of the Potomac | |
| Ritter, Friedrich | Adam and Eve in the Galapagos | |
| Rogers, Woodes | A Cruising Voyage Round the World | |
| Roosevelt, Eleanor | “My Day” | |
| Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro | History of the Incas | |
| Schimpff, J. F. | “. . . A Modern ‘Robinson Crusoe’ ” | |
| Scouler, John | “Account of a Voyage to Madeira, Brazil, Juan Fernandez, and the Gallapagos Islands …” |
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| Seymour, John | “Notes on the Island of Cocos, and Two of the Galapagos.” | |
| Shillibeer, John | A Narrative of the Briton's Voyage … | |
| Snell, Heidi | Gravesites of Galápagos Fishermen | |
| Snell, Heidi, et al | Sortable Table of Island Names & Locations, derived from data in “Geographical Characteristics of the Galápagos Islands.” | |
| Staples, M. M. | Letter to Stephen A. Hurlbut, U. S. Minister in Lima | |
| Stock, Ralph | The Cruise of the Dream Ship | |
| Strauch, Dore | Satan Came to Eden | |
| Townsend, Charles Haskins | The Galapagos Tortoises in their Relation to the Whaling Industry | |
| Appendix: Logbook Records of Tortoises Taken from the Galápagos Islands ― | ||
| U. S. Army & Navy | Report of Joint Army-Navy Air Mission … Galapagos Islands | |
| U. S. Air Force | John F. Mast Accident Report | |
| Aircraft Accidents in Galápagos During WWII Occupation | ||
| Report of Searching Expedition on Pinzon Island, 30 October 1943 | ||
| “Galapagos Oasis” | ||
| Study of the U. S. Air Forces' Galapagos Islands Base | ||
| U. S. Coast Guard | “Foundering of the Princess Pat.” | |
| U. S. Congress | Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 78th Congress. | |
| U. S. Navy | Building the Navy's Bases in World War II. | |
| Utley, Temple | “Statement … regarding the death of Captain Paul Edvard Bruun.” | |
| A Modern Sea Beggar | ||
| Vancouver, George | A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean … | |
| von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang | Ecuador the Unknown & The Galapagos Revisited (excerpts) | |
| The Chronology of the Darwin Memorial Expedition, … . | ||
| Warriner, Francis | Cruise of the Potomac | |
| West, Paul | Ship's Log: Whaleship Cyrus | |
| Wittmer, Margret | What Happened on Galápagos? | |
| Woram, John | 1991: “Who Killed the Iguanas?” | |
| 1992: “That First Iguana Transfer” | ||
| 2000: “The Year of the Tortoise: Dating the Maps of the Galápagos Islands” | ||
| 2001: “History and Discovery on the Web” | ||
| 2002a: “Virtual Collecting: The Virtues of Electronic Cartography” | ||
| 2002b: The Galápagos Track of HMS Beagle | ||
| 2003: Portraits in the Round: Busts of Charles Darwin | ||
| 2005: Charles Darwin Slept Here (Sample excerpts in PDF files) | ||
| 2006: Chronology of the Seth Parker Voyage | ||
| 2006: The Seven Manuscripts of William Ambrosia Cowley | ||
| 2009: The Galápagos Post Office | ||
| 2011: On the Origin of “Galápago” | ||
| 2013: Why are there no Cormorants at Bahía Cormorant? | ||
| 2013: Who Was Walter Finsen? | ||
| 2014: Plagiarising Paradise | ||
| 2014: Putting Galápagos on the Map | ||
| 2014: Dating a Lava Flow at Beagle Crater | ||
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Title — A published book “Title” — Other publication (newspaper, magazine, etc.) Title — Document unpublished elsewhere | ||
| Text Comparisons | ||
| Authors | Comments | |
| William Ambrosia Cowley | The Lambeth Palace ms. appears to be an expanded version of Cowley's “Your Grace” letter. | |
| There are significant content differences between the Sloane, Pepys and Morgan manuscripts. | ||
| Herman Melville & Edmund Spenser | Melville freely borrowed from Edmund Spenser for his introductory verses. | |
| Herman Melville & James Colnett | Melville used Colnett's Voyage as one of his sources. | |
| Herman Melville & David Porter | Melville also borrowed and enhanced much of Porter's original text. | |
| Melville, Porter & Coulter | Melville follows Porter's account of Patrick Watkins' fate. | |
| Dore Strauch & Margret Wittmer | Their accounts of Dr. Ritter's death don't always agree. | |