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This presents the previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on Cook's second voyage. The main pagination of this volume and the three other volumes in the set (Second series 152, 154-155) is continuous.
Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, From the 1609 Lisbon edition. Continues First Series 41. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1871.
Dezhnev was the first European to sail round the north-eastern tip of Asia. Translation of published Russian documents, with an extensive critical exposition of their significance.
Translation of manuscript shipboard journals in French, with an account of the voyage.
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
Autor:
Quinn, D. B., Hakluyt Society
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, translator and author of travel literature. In Volume I, part one consists
Pedro Fernández de Quirós was a remarkable navigator and explorer. Having sailed in 1595 as chief pilot in the ill-fated Spanish expedition to the Solomon Islands, he returned to the'Austral Lands'- the area of the New Hebrides - in 1605 with anoth
Autor:
Bovill, E. W., Hakluyt Society
This is the second of three volumes on the Bornu Mission (1822-25) which form part of a series of volumes on the exploration of the Niger. They consist of the edited text of the'Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in t
The previously unpublished journal of the principal naturalist on Cook's second voyage. The introduction discusses Forster's career. The main pagination of this volume and the following three volumes is continuous.
Edited, with a Life of the Author, an Introduction and Notes. Letters 4-8, 1623-1624. This and the previous volume (First Series 84) have continuous main pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1892