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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
Barbot on Guinea - The writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712 Volumes I & II by Jean Barbot; Adam Jones (ed.); P. E. H. Hair (Editor); Robin Law (ed.)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volumes 175-6 | Reading Level: very good
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 printed sources. The work was interrupted by his fligh ...Show more
English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1550-1646 by Joyce Lorimer (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume171 | Reading Level: very good
From as early as the middle of the 16th century Englishmen were interested in the possibility of exploring the fabled resources of the great river of the Amazons. During the first half of the 17th century English and Irish projectors made persistent efforts to maintain trading factories and plantation t ...Show more
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
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 English New England Voyages, 1602-1608 by David B. Quinn (editor); Alison M Quinn (editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 161 | Reading Level: very good
The publication of the narrative accounts of the voyages of Gisnold (1602) and Waymouth (1605) opened up for English readers what was then known as Norumbega, the later New England; They are the first documents of exploration of that region to have been published since that of Verrazzano's voyage (1524) ...Show more
The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799-1830 by John Davies, C.W. Newbury (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Ser.
The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo by Jeronimo Lobo; M. G. Da Costa (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 162 | Reading Level: very good
Jerónimo Lobo was the last survivor of the small band of Jesuit Fathers who tried, with a measure of success, to reconcile Ethiopia to the Church of Rome. The narrative begins with Lobo's ordination in 1621 and ends seventeen years later. Chosen to serve in India he reached that country after being invo ...Show more
The Journal of Jean-Francois de Galaup de la Perouse, 1785-1788 - Volume I and Volume II by Jean Francois De Galaup De Laperouse; Jean-Francois de Galoupe de La Perouse; John Dunmore (Editor)
$75.00 NZD
Category: Captain Cook & Pacific Exploration | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volumes 179-180 | Reading Level: very good
During the second half of the 18th century, Britain and France despatched a number of major expeditions to the Pacific. The greatest contribution by far was that of James Cook, but the voyages of Bougainville, Surville and Marion du Fresne had each played an important part in Pacific exploration. After ...Show more
The Journal of Rochfort Maguire 1852-1854 - Two Years at Point Barrow, Alaska Aboard HMS Plover in Search for Sir John Franklin Voume I and Volume II by Rochfort Maguire; John Bockstoce (Editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volumes 169-70 | Reading Level: very good
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 of 21 expeditions searching for Franklin. Although most of the analyses of the Franklin Search have focused on the large ex ...Show more
The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck - His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke1253-1255 by Peter Jackson (Editor); David Morgan (Editor)
$37.50 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 173 | Reading Level: very good
"William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253-55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to the court of the Great Khan M ngke at Qaraqorum in Mongolia and back again. . . . William was interested in all that he saw. . . . His account is particularly ...Show more
The Purchas Handbook - Studies of the Life, Times and Writings of Samuel Purchas, 1577-1626 Volume I and Volume II by L. E. Pennington (Editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volumes 185 and 186 | Reading Level: very good
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 Purchas (1577-1626) and a critical evaluation of his achievements as collector, editor, and author of travel literature. The Handbook attempts to evaluate h ...Show more