A Regiment For The Sea; And Other Writings On Navigation by E. G. R. Taylor
$42.50 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society
Agatharchides of Cnidus - On the Erythraean Sea by Agatharchides of Cnidus; Stanley M. Burstein (Editor)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 172 | Reading Level: very good
Written some time before 100 BC the On the Erythraean Sea of Agatharchides of Cnidus is the most important source for an almost forgotten chapter of the history of geographical discovery, the exploration of the Red Sea and the region surrounding it by agents of the Ptolemaic government of Egypt in the c ...Show more
Ethiopian Itineraries ca. 1400-1524 by O. G. S. Crawford
$55.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society
Including those collected by Alessandro Zorzi at Venice in the Years 1519-24
Four Travel Journals / the Americas, Antarctica and Africa / 1775-1874 by Herbert K. Beals (Editor); Anita McConnell (Editor); Roy Bridges (Editor); R. J. Campbell (Editor); Ann Savours (Editor)
$42.50 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Ser.
This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished travel journals from the period 1775-1874. The first of these is the journal of a participant in a Spanish expedition sent from Mexico to explore the north-west coast of America. From the out ...Show more
João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan by Michael Cooper (Editor); João Rodrigues
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Ser.
Jo o Rodrigues sailed from Portugal to Japan in 1577, and there entered the Jesuit novitiate and was ordained priest. He met Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the virtual ruler of Japan, in 1591, and from that time became the missionaries' spokesman in dealings with Japanese authorities. He was also involved in negot ...Show more
Mandeville's Travels: Vol. I & II by Malcolm Letts F.S.A.
$40.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society
Mandeville's Travels is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir of an Englishman named Sir John Mandeville across the Islamic World as far as India and China.
Olaus Magnus, a Description of the Northern Peoples 1555 - Volume I, II, III by P. G. Foote (Editor)
$75.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Ser.
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 ...Show more
Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622 / Volume I & II by Manuel João Ramos (Editor); Isabel Boavida (Editor); Hervé Pennec (Editor); Manuel João Ramos (Editor)
$90.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Ser.
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 ...Show more
Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola 1605-1612 by Pieter van den Broecke; James D. La Fleur (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 5 | Reading Level: very good
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 companies who were then expanding their worldwide trading networks. Van den Broecke used this homecoming to compose a lengthy manuscript describing his e ...Show more
Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries by Henry Arrowsmith-Brown (Editor); Richard Pankhurst
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 174 | Reading Level: very good
Remedius Prutky, Franciscan missionary, was in 1751 appointed vice-prefect of a mission sent to Ethiopia in response to an invitation by the then emperor Iyasu II; with two colleagues he left Cairo in August and reached Massawa in November. After some delay he was summoned to Gondar, which he reached in ...Show more
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger (1789-1857) - Volume III: the Voyages of 1817, 1818 And 1820 by C. Ian Jackson (Editor); William Scoresby
$35.00 NZD
Category: Antarctica & the Sub-Antarctic | Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Ser.
This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's journals. It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages 1817, 1818 and 1820. During the years of the voyages in this volume Scoresby's life changed profoundly. An unsuccessful hunt for whales in 1817 led to a break with the ...Show more
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger Volume I - The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813 by William Scoresby; C. Ian Jackson (Editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No12 | Reading Level: very good
William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On 5 October 1810, his twenty-first birthday, ...Show more