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The English New England Voyages, 1602-1608
This collection of narrative accounts of voyages to New England is basic for an understanding of how Englishmen began to explore that important territory. It includes Archer's …
Australia Circumnavigated. The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume II
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 …
The Hakluyt Handbook
The Hakluyt Handbook provides a reference guide to the works of the Reverend Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) and a critical evaluation of his achievements as a collector, editor, …
Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622 / Volume I
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), …
Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth
This volume celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Hakluyt Society. It contains a survey of the 200+ scholarly editions of `voyages and travels' published by the Society, followed …
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger/ Volume II / The Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816
This second volume of William Scoresby's journals contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages in the Esk in 1814-16. As before, these lengthy journals combine scientific …
Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772-1820 / Journals, Letters and Documents
Sir Joseph Banks was one of the great figures of Georgian England, best known for participating as naturalist in Cook's Endeavour voyage (1768-71), as a patron of science and as …
A Walk across Africa
The Nile Expedition of 1860–1863 was one of the most important exploratory expeditions made in the nineteenth century. The long-debated question of the location of the source of …
Voyages to Hudson Bay vol I in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741-1747
The 18th century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur …
The Journal of Rochfort Maguire 1852-1854 vol II Two years at Point Barrow, Alaska aboard HMS Plover in search for Sir John Franklin
In 1845 Sir John Franklin's expedition left England, searching for a northwest passage, and vanished into the Arctic forever. Three years later HMS Plover's was the first departure …
Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana
Sir Walter Ralegh's account of his 1595 expedition to the Orinoco in search of the fabled empire of El Dorado was an immediate publishing success and is one of the most important …
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, by an unknown author
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 …