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A Volume Issued to Commemorate the Centenary of the Hakluyt Society
And of the Notable Things Therein Contained
Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China : Cathay and the Way Thither (Series Vol. 38)
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...
Or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others
From the Old English Translation of 1664 by G. Havers ; in Two Volumes
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
From The Lendas Da India Of Gaspar Correa
This travelogue follows the journey of Franรงois Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas, and Brazil, offering a fascinating in...
In the summer of 1630, Pieter van den Broecke returned to Amsterdam after completing his fifth voyage overseas as a commercial agent for various Dutch...
Together with the Spanish Account of Drakes Attack on Puerto-Rico
1496-1631. With Selections from the Rearly Records of the Honourable the East India Company and from Mss. in the British Museum
Transcript of the Princeton MS, with Strachey's vocabulary of an Algonkian dialect and an essay on the same by James A. Geary....
Studies of the Life, Times and Writings of Samuel Purchas 1577-1626, with Bibliographies of His Books and of Works about Him
The Purchas Handbook follows the model of the Society's earlier Hakluyt Handbook in providing a reference guide to the works of the Reverend Samuel Pu...
The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa, 1678-1712
An edition of the original material in a manuscript account of the Guinea coast written in French in the 1680s and deriving in part from Barbot's two ...
In 1623 Richard Jobson published an account of a 1620-21 English voyage up River Gambia, during which the party he led penetrated to a point 460 miles...
In the Provinces of Tierra Firme, Or Catilla Del Oro and of the Discovery of the South Sea and the Coasts of Peru and Nicaragua
I. The Diary of Master Thomas Dallam, 1599-1600. II. Extracts from the Diaries of Dr. John Covel, 1670-1679. With Some Account of the Levant Company of Turkey Merchants