The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589), together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few documents in summ... Lees meer

The Voyages of Cadamosto and Other Documents on Western Africa in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Translation and edition. The additional documents, in translation, comprise a letter by Antoine Malfante, 1447, an account of the voyages of Diogo Gom... Lees meer

Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Remedius Prutky, Franciscan missionary, was in 1751 appointed vice-prefect of a mission sent to Ethiopia in response to an invitation by the then empe... Lees meer

Missions to the Niger

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• 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 Ho... Lees meer

Barbot on Guinea

Adam Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Jean Barbot, who served as a commercial agent on French slave-trading voyages to West Africa in 1678-9 and 1681-2, in 1683 began an account of the Gui... Lees meer

The Prester John of the Indies

G W B Huntingford

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• This is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520 and re-embarked 6 years later. It ... Lees meer

The Resolution Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775

Michael E Hoare

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• This presents the previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on Cook's second voyage. The main pagination of this volume and the three... Lees meer

The Expedition of the St John-Baptiste to the Pacific, 1769-1770

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• The St Jean-Baptiste expedition sailed at a crucial time in Pacific exploration. The voyages of Bougainville and Wallis had just ended, James Cook's f... Lees meer

Olaus Magnus, a Description of the Northern Peoples, 1555

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter half of his life in exile. His devoti... Lees meer

The Voyage of George Vancouver, 1791 - 1795

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Four of the greatest maritime exploring expeditions were crammed into two decades late in the 18th century - Cook's third voyage, the French expeditio... Lees meer

The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589), together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few documents in summ... Lees meer

The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries Bordering on the Indian Ocean and Their Inhabitants

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• '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 Document... Lees meer

The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Ad 1325-1354

H A R Gibb, C F Beckingham

• This volume completes the translation of Ibn Battuta's narrative. Volume III ended with Ibn Battuta's appointment by the Sultan of Delhi to accompany ... Lees meer

An Elizabethan in 1582

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Chronicling, in the main, the initial (albeit abortive) attempt to establish a spice trade in the Moluccas, the Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All ... Lees meer

Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883

Wendy James, Gerd Baumann

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam business family in the mid-19th century. Established young as a travel writer and reporter, he deci... Lees meer

The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete, 1616-1686

J S Cummins

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Volume I: A translation, edited from manuscript and printed sources, of the autobiographical portions of the Tratados Historicos, with interpolations ... Lees meer

The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert

David Beers Quinn

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Volume I: A collection of documents, chiefly from English sources, including a few relating to Ireland, edited with introduction and notes. First publ... Lees meer

Agatharchides of Cnidus

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Written some time before 100 BC the On the Erythraean Sea of Agatharchides of Cnidus is the most important source for an almost forgotten chapter of t... Lees meer

The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore, 1698-1701

Edmond Halley

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Edmond Halley was already a well-known astronomer, mathematician and natural philosopher when, in 1698, he took command of His Majesty's Ship Paramore... Lees meer