The Cabot Voyages and Bristol Discovery Under Henry VII

R a Skelton

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• The voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot and their English contemporaries were made, for the most part, in search of a westward passage to Asia, and th... 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

Early Spanish Voyages to the Strait of Magellan

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Narratives, translated and edited, with a preface, introduction and notes, of the second voyage through the strait, commanded by the Comendador Loaysa... Lees meer

The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. Between 1324 and 1354 he journeyed through North Africa and Asia Minor and as far as China. On a separate voy... Lees meer

The Pilgrimage of Arnold Von Harff, Knight, from Cologne

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Translated from the German from Groote's edition of 1860 and edited with notes and an introduction This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of t... 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 English New England Voyages, 1602-1608

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• The publication of the narrative accounts of the voyages of Gisnold (1602) and Waymouth (1605) opened up for English readers what was then known as No... Lees meer

The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, Written by John Davies, Missionary to the South Sea Islands

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• In the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19t... Lees meer

The Travels of Ibn Battuta, AD 1325-1354

H A R Gibb, C F Beckingham

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• 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

The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, João Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated fro... Lees meer

Select Documents Illustrating the Four Voyages of Columbus

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Translated and edited, with additional material, and introduction and notes. Enlarges on First Series 43 (1870). Continued in Second Series 70. This i... Lees meer

The Travels of Pedro Teixeira; With His 'Kings of Harmuz', and Extracts from His 'Kings of Persia'

Donald Ferguson

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Translated and Annotated by William F. Sinclair, Bombay Civil Service (Retd.), with Further Notes and an Introduction by Donald Ferguson. The main tex... Lees meer

The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Jerónimo Lobo was the last survivor of the small band of Jesuit Fathers who tried, with a measure of success, to reconcile Ethiopia to the Church of R... Lees meer

Storm Van 's Gravesande, the Rise of British Guiana, Compiled from His Despatches

J a J De Villiers

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Extracts from despatches by Laurens Storm van 's Gravesande to the directors of the Zeeland Chamber of the Dutch West India Company, 1738-72, selected... Lees meer

The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• In 1736 Gerhard Müller, a member of the new Russian Academy of Sciences, while gathering historical materials in Siberia, uncovered in Yakutsk reports... Lees meer

Civil Wars in Peru, the War of Las Salinas, by Pedro de Cieza de León

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Book I of Cieza's chronicle, translated, with an introduction. For other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see Second Series 3... Lees meer

The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck

Of Rubruck William

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Prior to the 13th century the horizons of Western Christians extended no further than the principalities of what is now European Russia and the Islami... Lees meer

The Jamestown Voyages Under the First Charter, 1606-1609

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• In December 1606, 120 emigrants left London in three small vessels. They landed nearly five months later in Virginia and founded a settlement which th... Lees meer

The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 1612-14

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Journals, extracts from journals, and narratives, written on board the Dragon and Hosiander by Best and various other persons, including Ralph Standis... Lees meer

A Relation of a Voyage to Guiana by Robert Harcourt 1613

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Edited with introduction and notes. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1928. Lees meer

The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Edited from Contemporary Records. The main pagination of this and the previous volume (Second Series 1) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand h... Lees meer

Europeans in West Africa, 1540-1560

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• Follows on from First Series 86, with continuous main pagination. This volume contains documents relating to early English voyages to West Africa. Thi... Lees meer

The Voyage of Nicholas Downton to the East Indies,1614-15

• Hardcover | Engels | Hakluyt Society, Second
• This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1939. 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