Hakluyt Society imprint: 134 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In 1764 the Hon. John Byron was commissioned by the Admiralty to sail to the South Atlantic to search for Pepys's Island and the Southern Continent. He was then to continue into the Pacific itself and look for a possible North-west passage. Although he rediscovered the Falkland Islands, it was after...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Captain Philip Carteret sailed to the South Seas as second in command to Samuel Wallis on a voyage of discovery of the Southern Continent. Separating from Wallis at the exit to the Strait of Magellan he went on to make an independent voyage which has earned him the reputation of being the ablest and...
The Journal of William Lockerby, Sandalwood Trader in the Fijian Islands during the Years 1808-1809
With an Introduction and Other Papers connected with the Earliest European Visitors to the Islands
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The additional documents include Samuel Patterson's account of the wreck of the Eliza, 1808, the journal of the missionaries from the Hibernia, 1809, Captain Richard Siddon's experiences in Fiji in 1809-15, and extracts from periodical publications, 1804-15. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1925.
Missions to the Niger
Volume I: The Journal of Friedrich Horneman's Travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the Years 1797-98; The Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing, 1824-26
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is the first of several volumes on the exploration of the Niger following its discovery by Mingo Park. It begins with the travels of Friedrich Hornemann and then leaps a quarter of a century to the great journey of Alexander Gordon Laing. The travels of Lyon, Oudney, Denham and Clapperton will...
The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers, Nicolò and Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas in the XIVth Century
Comprising the latest known Accounts of the Lost Colony of Greenland; and of the Northmen in America before Columbus
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Italian text of the Zenos' narrative (compiled from the letters of Nicolò Zeno by Nicolò Zeno the Younger), and the Danish and Latin texts of Ivar Bardsen's description of Greenland in the fourteenth century, with English translation. Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1873.
Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia by Anthony Jenkinson and other Englishmen
With some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Edited from the manuscript writings of Jenkinson and other agents of the Muscovy Company in the second half of the sixteenth century, and including correspondence between Elizabeth I and Ivan IV, and reports to Cecil and the Council. Continued in First Series 73, with continuous pagination. This is...
by Charles T. Beke
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A revised edition of the First Edition Edited by Charles T. Beke, Phil.D., F.S.A. (First Series 13, 1853), with a new introduction. With a 'Postscript' of five unnumbered pages at the beginning of the text. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1876.
The Suma Oriental of Tomé Pires
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Containing the translated Books I-V of the Suma Oriental: An Account of the East, from the Red Sea to Japan, written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515, and The Book of Francisco Rodrigues, Rutter of a Voyage in the Red Sea, Nautical Rules, Almanack and Maps, Written and Drawn in the East before 1515....