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  • BARBOT ON GUINEA
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    BARBOT ON GUINEA
    ADAM JONES
    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 Guinea coast, based partly on his voyage journals (only one of which is extant) and partly on previous printed sources. The work was interrupted by his flight to England, as a Huguenot refugee, in 1685, and not finished until 1688. W...

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  • THE PACIFIC JOURNAL OF LOUIS-ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE, 1767-1768
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    THE PACIFIC JOURNAL OF LOUIS-ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE, 1767-1768
    LOUIS-ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE
    The French entered the Pacific in the late 17th century, but the ocean remained largely a Spanish preserve until British navigators began to cross its vast expanse in the mid 1760s. France's concerns that Britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed Louis de Bougainville's voyage of exploration undertaken in 1766-9. After handing over the colony ...

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  • THE TRAVEL JOURNAL OF ANTONIO DE BEATIS THROUGH GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, THE LOW COUNTRIES, FRANCE AND ITALY, 1517–8
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    THE TRAVEL JOURNAL OF ANTONIO DE BEATIS THROUGH GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, THE LOW COUNTRIES, FRANCE AND ITALY, 1517–8
    J. R. HALE
    In May 1517, Luigi of Aragon, one of the most wealthy, cultivated and well-connected of Italian cardinals, left Italy for a leisurely tour through Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries and France, which lasted until January 1518. Too grand to keep a record of his own movements, he was well-served by his chaplain and amanuensis, Antonio de Beatis, who day by day kept a steadil...

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  • PEDRO PÁEZ'S HISTORY OF ETHIOPIA, 1622 / VOLUME II
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    PEDRO PÁEZ'S HISTORY OF ETHIOPIA, 1622 / VOLUME II
    ISABEL BOAVIDA / HERVÉ PENNEC / MANUEL JOÃO RAMOS
    This book, in two volumes, contains an annotated English translation of the História da Ethiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez (Pêro Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John. His history of Ethiopia was written in Portugue...

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  • AUSTRALIA CIRCUMNAVIGATED. THE VOYAGE OF MATTHEW FLINDERS IN HMS INVESTIGATOR, 1801-1803 / VOLUME II
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    AUSTRALIA CIRCUMNAVIGATED. THE VOYAGE OF MATTHEW FLINDERS IN HMS INVESTIGATOR, 1801-1803 / VOLUME II
    KENNETH O. MORGAN
    This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders’s fair journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the ’Memoir’ he wrote to accompany his journals and charts. These are among the most important primary texts in Australian maritime history and European voyaging in the Pacific. Flinders was the first expl...

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  • THE MALASPINA EXPEDITION 1789–1794
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    THE MALASPINA EXPEDITION 1789–1794
    ANDREW DAVID / FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO / GLYNDWR WILLIAMS
    Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment. Italian-born, Malaspina entered the Spanish navy in 1774. In September 1788 he and fellow-officer José Bustamante submitted a plan to the Ministry of Marine for a voyage of survey and inspection to Sp...

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  • STORM VAN 'S GRAVESANDE, THE RISE OF BRITISH GUIANA, COMPILED FROM HIS DESPATCHES
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    STORM VAN 'S GRAVESANDE, THE RISE OF BRITISH GUIANA, COMPILED FROM HIS DESPATCHES
    J.A.J. DE VILLIERS
    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 to illustrate the rise and expansion of the colony, with a detailed introduction. This volume ends with the despatch dated 15 March 1760. For May 1760 to September 1772, see the following volume (Second Series 27), with which the...

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  • THE SUMA ORIENTAL OF TOMÉ PIRES
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    THE SUMA ORIENTAL OF TOMÉ PIRES
    ARMANDO CORTESÃO
    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. Translated from the Portuguese MS in the Bibliothèque de la Chambre des Deputé...

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  • CATHAY AND THE WAY THITHER. BEING A COLLECTION OF MEDIEVAL NOTICES OF CHINA
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    CATHAY AND THE WAY THITHER. BEING A COLLECTION OF MEDIEVAL NOTICES OF CHINA
    HENRI CORDIER
    Volume I followed (Second Series 38). A revised edition of First Series 36 (1866) and 37 (1866) above, whose title page was followed. The appendix contains a Latin and an Italian text of Friar Odoric's travels in the early fourteenth century. Continued in Second Series 37 and 41 below. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1913. ...

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  • THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF NEW SPAIN. BY BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, ONE OF ITS CONQUERORS
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    THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF NEW SPAIN. BY BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, ONE OF ITS CONQUERORS
    ALFRED PERCIVAL MAUDSLAY
    Books I-IV (1517-19), translated into English and edited, with introduction and notes, by Alfred Percival Maudslay, M.A., Hon. Professor of Archaeology, National Museum, Mexico, concerning the discovery of Mexico and the expeditions of Francisco Hernández de Cordova and Hernan Cortés, the march inland, and the war in Tlaxcala. The edition includes a bibliography of Mexico, pp....

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  • THE PERIPLUS OF THE ERYTHRAEAN SEA, BY AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR
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    THE PERIPLUS OF THE ERYTHRAEAN SEA, BY AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR
    G.W.B. HUNTINGFORD
    The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a short work of uncertain date and unknown authorship, written in very difficult Greek. It is concerned with the coasts of the Red Sea and |Indian Ocean and may be described as a combined trade directory and Admiralty Handbook, giving sailing directions and information about navigational hazards, harbours, imports and exports. It is of grea...

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  • THE EMBASSY OF SIR THOMAS ROE TO THE COURT OF THE GREAT MOGUL, 1615-1619
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    THE EMBASSY OF SIR THOMAS ROE TO THE COURT OF THE GREAT MOGUL, 1615-1619
    WILLIAM FOSTER
    Edited from Contemporary Records. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 2) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1899. Owing to technical constraints the portrait of Sir Thomas Roe is not included in the e-book edition of this work. ...

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  • THE CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION 1844-1846 / THE JOURNALS OF CHARLES STURT
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    THE CENTRAL AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION 1844-1846 / THE JOURNALS OF CHARLES STURT
    CHARLES STURT
    In August 1844 a heavily-laden party led by Captain Charles Sturt set out from Adelaide to head into the unexplored vastness of central Australia. Amongst their equipment was a boat: as well as carrying out his mission of scientific investigation and mapping the topography, Sturt was convinced he would find the inland sea that was reputed to lie in the middle of the continent a...

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  • HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD, BY GIROLAMO BENZONI, OF MILAN
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    HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD, BY GIROLAMO BENZONI, OF MILAN
    W.H. SMYTH
    Translated from the text originally published at Venice, 1572. The supplementary material consists of the 1857 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1857. ...

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  • OLAUS MAGNUS, A DESCRIPTION OF THE NORTHERN PEOPLES, 1555
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    OLAUS MAGNUS, A DESCRIPTION OF THE NORTHERN PEOPLES, 1555
    P.G. FOOTE
    The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490-1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter half of his life in exile. His devotion to his country and his people never faltered, nor his determination to give them a glorious place on the European cultural map by his writings. On his justly famous Carta Marina, published in Venice in 1539, he promised a fulle...

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  • THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ON HIS VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
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    THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ON HIS VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
    J.C. BEAGLEHOLE
    On his second expedition to the Pacific, in the years 1772-5, Captain James Cook made a voyage which, in the annals of exploration, is unsurpassed for grandeur of design and execution and for variety of experience. Cook traversed the Indian and Pacific Oceans in high latitudes, demonstrating that the supposed Southern continent could not extend north of 60°. Cook three times cr...

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  • THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ON HIS VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
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    THE JOURNALS OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK ON HIS VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
    J.C. BEAGLEHOLE
    Captain James Cook’s first two voyages of exploration, in 1768-71 and 1772-75, had drawn the modern map of the South Pacific Ocean and had opened the door on the discovery of Antarctica. These expeditions were the subject of Volumes I and II of this edition of Cook’s Journals. The third voyage, on which Cook sailed in 1776, was directed to the Northern Hemisphere. Sailing north...

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  • THE LETTERS OF F.W. LUDWIG LEICHHARDT
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    THE LETTERS OF F.W. LUDWIG LEICHHARDT
    M. AUROUSSEAU
    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 philosophy, particularly biology, geology and geography, but as a scholar of nat...

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  • THE VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN BELLINGSHAUSEN TO THE ANTARCTIC SEAS, 1819-1821
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    THE VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN BELLINGSHAUSEN TO THE ANTARCTIC SEAS, 1819-1821
    FRANK DEBENHAM
    Follows on with continuous main pagination from Second Series 91. An additional section entitled 'Short notes on the colonies of New South Wales' is included. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1945. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the map which was included in a pocket at the end of the first e...

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  • THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTA
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    THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTA
    PROFESSOR A D H BIVAR
    Almost everything that is known of the life and personality of Ibn Battuta is derived from his own narrative of his travels. So wrote H. A. R. Gibb in his Foreword in 1957 at the start of this Hakluyt Society project. Now over forty years later, the completion has been achieved by the publication of the fifth volume, being an extensive index compiled by Professor Bivar, which c...

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  • PETER FLORIS, HIS VOYAGE TO THE EAST INDIES IN THE GLOBE, 1611-1615
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    PETER FLORIS, HIS VOYAGE TO THE EAST INDIES IN THE GLOBE, 1611-1615
    W.H. MORELAND
    This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934. ...

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  • THE BONDAGE AND TRAVELS OF JOHANN SCHILTBERGER, A NATIVE OF BAVARIA, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA, 1396-1427
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    THE BONDAGE AND TRAVELS OF JOHANN SCHILTBERGER, A NATIVE OF BAVARIA, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA, 1396-1427
    J. BUCHAN TELFER
    Translated from the Heidelberg MS edited in 1859 by Professor Karl Friedrich Neumann, by Commander J. Buchan Telfer, R.N., F.S.A., F.R.G.S. With Notes by Professor P. Bruun of the Imperial University of South Russia, at Odessa, and a Preface, Introduction and Notes by the Translator and Editor. The supplementary material consists of the 1879 annual report. This is a new print-o...

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  • THE TROUBLESOME VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN EDWARD FENTON, 1582-1583
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    THE TROUBLESOME VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN EDWARD FENTON, 1582-1583
    E.G.R. TAYLOR
    Transcripts of certain surviving records of the voyage for Cathay sponsored by the Privy Council and intended to establish the first English trading base in the Far East. Includes Fenton's own sea journal and extracts from the official narrative of Richard Madox, for which see also Second Series 147. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published i...

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  • MEMORIAS ANTIGUAS HISTORIALES DEL PERU, BY FERNANDO MONTESINOS
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    MEMORIAS ANTIGUAS HISTORIALES DEL PERU, BY FERNANDO MONTESINOS
    SIR CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM
    Text written in the seventeenth century, translated and edited by Philip Ainsworth Means, with an Introduction by the late Sir Clements R. Markham. The translation is from the Spanish edition of Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, published Madrid, 1882. Also includes 'Eight chronological tables ... compiled by P. A. Means'; 'List of words in the names of kings and Incas ...' and 'Qu...

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  • THE CHRONICLE OF THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF GUINEA. WRITTEN BY GOMES EANNES DE AZURARA
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    THE CHRONICLE OF THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF GUINEA. WRITTEN BY GOMES EANNES DE AZURARA
    EDGAR PRESTAGE
    Contains the translation and edition of chapters 1-40 of the chronicle, continued in First Series 100. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1896. ...

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  • THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM LOCKERBY, SANDALWOOD TRADER IN THE FIJIAN ISLANDS DURING THE YEARS 1808-1809
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    THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM LOCKERBY, SANDALWOOD TRADER IN THE FIJIAN ISLANDS DURING THE YEARS 1808-1809
    LEONARD C. WHARTON
    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. ...

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  • THE TRAVELS OF PETER MUNDY, IN EUROPE AND ASIA, 1608-1667
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    THE TRAVELS OF PETER MUNDY, IN EUROPE AND ASIA, 1608-1667
    LT. COL. SIR RICHARD CARNAC TEMPLE
    From the Rawlinson MS. A. 315 in the Bodleian Library, with facsimile of original t.-p.: Itinerarium mundi, that is A memoriall or sundry relations of certain voiages,journeies ettc. ... By: Peter Mundy. With an appendix of extracts from the writings of seventeenth-century travellers to the Levant. Continued in Second Series 35, 45, 46, 55, and 78. This is a new print-on-demand...

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  • THE DISCOVERIES OF THE WORLD, FROM THEIR FIRST ORIGINAL UNTO THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1555, BY ANTONIO GALVANO, GOVERNOR OF TERNATE
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    THE DISCOVERIES OF THE WORLD, FROM THEIR FIRST ORIGINAL UNTO THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1555, BY ANTONIO GALVANO, GOVERNOR OF TERNATE
    VICE-ADMIRAL BETHUNE
    For the edition of António Galvão, Tratado ... , used by Hakluyt and the edition here reprinted, see The Hakluyt Handbook (Second Series 144-5), pp. 41, 344, 603. With reproduction of the original title-pages: Portuguese edition [Lisbon] 1563; English translation, London, 1601. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1862. ...

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  • MISSIONS TO THE NIGER
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    MISSIONS TO THE NIGER
    E.W. BOVILL
    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 be the subject of later volumes. Book I consists of an edited text of Hornemann...

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  • THE NATURAL AND MORAL HISTORY OF THE INDIES, BY FATHER JOSEPH DE ACOSTA
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    THE NATURAL AND MORAL HISTORY OF THE INDIES, BY FATHER JOSEPH DE ACOSTA
    CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM
    Concerned chiefly with Mexico and Peru. With introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (First Series 61) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1880. ...

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