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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This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished travel journals from the period 1775-1874.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
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
Russian California 1806-1860 - A History in Documents - 2 Vol. Set by James R. Gibson; Alexi A. Istomin; Valery A. Tishkov
$85.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Ser.
This two-volume book is a documentary history of Russia's 19th-century settlement in California. It contains 492 documents, mostly translated from the Russian for the first time, fully annotated, and with an extensive historical introduction. This broad range of primary sources provides a comprehensive ...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
The Central Australian Expedition 1844-1846 / the Journals of Charles Sturt by Richard C. Davis (Editor); Charles Sturt
$50.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Ser.
In August 1844 a heavily-laden party led by Captain Charles Sturt set out from Adelaide to head into the unexplored vastness of central Australia. Amongst their equipment was a boat: as well as carrying out his mission of scientific investigation and mapping the topography, Sturt was convinced he would ...Show more
The Discovery of River Gambra 1623 by Richard Jobson by Richard Jobson; David P. Gamble (Editor); P. E. H. Hair (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 2 | Reading Level: very good
In 1623 Richard Jobson published an account of a 1620-1621 English voyage up River Gambra, during which a party, led by himself, penetrated to a point some 460 miles up-river. The purpose of the voyage was to make contact with the gold trade of the West African interior, but in this there was little suc ...Show more
The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578 by James McDermott (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 6 | Reading Level: very good
Martin Frobisher's third (1578) voyage to Baffin island was the consequence of flawed logic and excessive optimism on the part of the adventurers of the ephemeral 'Company of Cathay'. Their original intention - to find a north-western route to the Far East - had been largely forgotten following the imag ...Show more
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