Hakluyt Society imprint: 134 books
The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas, and Brazil
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The text is translated into English from the Third French edition of 1619, and edited, with notes. This volume covers from 1601 to Pyrard's arrival at Goa in 1608 and is continued in First Series 77 and 80. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1887.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
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...
The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas, 1819-1821
Translated from the Russian Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Various translators, especially Edward Bullough and N. Volkov. The pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 92) is continuous. 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 edition of the work.
A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, by Lionel Wafer
Surgeon on Buccaneering Expeditions in Darien, the West Indies, and the Pacific, from 1680 to 1688. With Wafer's Secret Report (1698), and Davis's Expedition to the Gold Mines (1704)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The text of the 1699 edition, with slight changes, and additional material, edited with introduction, notes and appendices. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This volume brings together, translated and edited by R.H. Major, five letters by Columbus describing his first, third, and fourth voyages; another by Dr Chanca, physician, descriptive of the second voyage; and an extract from the will of Diego Mendez, one of Columbus's officers on the fourth voyage....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The translation and edition of a Portuguese account of the coasts of Africa and their discovery, written c.1505-1508. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1937.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and edited from the German account by Gabriel Tetzel, with supplementary passages from the Latin versions (printed in 1577, 1843 and 1951) of the lost account in Czech by Václav Sasek, both having been Rozmital's companions. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1957.
The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Transcribed from the First English Edition of 1708 and edited and annotated. This volume covers the years 1689-1693. Continued in First Series 83. The supplementary material includes the 1890 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1889.
Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620
In Two Books. Book I - The Danish Expeditions to Greenland in 1605, 1606, and 1607; to which is added Captain James Hall's Voyage to Greenland in 1612
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Continued in First Series 97. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1897.
The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery
Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
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 Dr J.C. Beaglehole’s edition of Cook’s Journals....
The Discovery of Tahiti, A Journal of the Second Voyage of H.M.S. Dolphin Round the World, under the Command of Captain Wallis, R.N.
In the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768, Written by her Master, George Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1948.
The Pilgrimage of Arnold von Harff, Knight, from Cologne
Through Italy, Syria, Egypt, Arabia, Ethiopia, Nubia, Palestine, Turkey, France and Spain, which he Accomplished in the years 1496-1499
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
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 the volume first published in 1946.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs from the Indians and then to proced to Canton via Japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific...
The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830, Written by John Davies, Missionary to the South Sea Islands
With Supplementary Papers of the Missionaries
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19th century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and the calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia...