Hakluyt Society imprint: 134 books

The Journey of William of Rubruck to the Eastern Parts of the World, 1253-55

As Narrated by Himself. With Two Accounts of the Earlier Journey of John of Pian de Carpine

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

The texts of Willem van Ruusbroec and Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, translated from the Latin and edited, with an Introductory Notice. See also Second Series 173. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1900.

The Journal of Christopher Columbus (during his First Voyage, 1492-93)

And Documents relating to the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Translated, with Notes and an Introduction, and including Paolo Toscanelli's sailing directions in letters to Columbus, and documents relating to Sebastian Cabot. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1893.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

New edition, with introduction and notes; for the previous edition, by Sir Clements Markham, see First Series 56 (1877). Contains three additional narratives and other documents and omits certain supplementary matter. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1940.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

A revised edition of First Series1 above, edited, with an Introduction, along with narratives of the voyages of Sir Richard Hawkins' grandfather William, of his father Sir John, and of his cousin William Hawkins, from manuscripts and printed editions. The supplementary material consists of the 1878...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Translated, for the First Time, with Notes, a Preface, and an Introductory Life of Timour Beg. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1859.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017

Ludwig Leichhardt is chiefly known as the most important of the scientific explorers of Australia. His lively but detailed letters provide a narrative of his life from his student days in the mid-1830s until 1848 when he disappeared in the Australian interior. Leichhardt's main interest was natural...

The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants

Written by Duarte Barbosa, and Completed about the year 1518 A.D. Volume II

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

'Translated from the Portuguese Text First Published in 1812 A.D. by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon, in Vol. II of its Collection of Documents regarding the History and Geography of the Nations beyond the Seas', edited and annotated. Continued from Second Series 44. With translated extracts...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

A collection of documents, chiefly from English sources, including a few relating to Ireland, edited with introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 84) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1940.

The Book of Duarte Barbosa, An Account of the Countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants

Written by Duarte Barbosa, and Completed about the year 1518 A.D. Volume I

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

'Translated from the Portuguese Text First Published in 1812 A.D. by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon, in Vol. II of its Collection of Documents regarding the History and Geography of the Nations beyond the Seas', edited and annotated. With a translation of chapter 2, the history of Rander,...

The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622

Narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen São Thomé (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), São João Baptista (1622) and the journeys of the survivors in South East Africa

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, João Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated from the original editions of accounts which were subsequently included in the 'História Trágico-Marítima' edited by Bernardo Gomes de Brito at Lisbon...
by Richard F. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Translated from the 1557 Marburg edition of the author's Warhafftige Historia und Beschreiburg ejner Landtschallte der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newnwelt America gelegen. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1874.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Ends December 1617. Continued to 1622 in the following volume (First Series 67). This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1883.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Journals, narratives, and descriptions relating to British colonization in the islands of St Christopher, Nevis, Barbados, Tobago and Trinidad, and in Guiana, the voyage of Sir Henry Coltand, and to Admiral de Ruyter's raid in the West Indies, 1664-5. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition...

Peter Floris, his Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe, 1611-1615

The Contemporary Translation of his Journal

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934.
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