Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741-1747 - Volume I - The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742 by William Barr (ed.); Glyndwr Williams (ed.)
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Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 177 | Reading Level: very good
The 18th century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur Dobbs, the Admiralty sent the Furnace and Discovery to Hudson Bay in 1741 in search of a navigable passage to the Pacific. ...Show more
Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883 by Juan Maria Schuver; Wendy James (ed.); Gerd Baumann (ed.); Douglas H Johnson (ed.)
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Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 184 | Reading Level: very good
Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam business family in the mid-19th century. Established young as a travel writer and reporter, he decided to embark on scientific exploration. Leaving Cairo at the turn of 1880-1881 he proceeded up the Blue Nile, intending to find a new route through to th ...Show more
The Last Voyage of Drake and Hawkins by Kenneth R. Andrews (Editor)
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Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 142 | Reading Level: good-very good
This is an account of the expedition of royal and private ships which left Plymouth in 1595 under the command of Drake and Hawkins with the aim of capturing the city of Panama. The expedition ended in total failure, both leaders died and attempt to capture Grand Canary, Puerto Rico and Panama were all r ...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)
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Category: Travel | 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
Agatharchides of Cnidus - On the Erythraean Sea by Agatharchides of Cnidus; Stanley M. Burstein (Editor)
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Category: Travel | 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
Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries by Henry Arrowsmith-Brown (Editor); Richard Pankhurst
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Category: Travel | 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
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.)
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Category: Travel | 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
The English New England Voyages, 1602-1608 by David B. Quinn (editor); Alison M Quinn (editor)
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Category: Travel | 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 Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore, 1698-1701 - including maps by Edmond Halley; N. J. W. Thrower (Editor)
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Category: Nautical | Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Series Volume 156 | Reading Level: very good
Edmond Halley was already a well-known astronomer, mathematician and natural philosopher when, in 1698, he took command of His Majesty's Ship Paramore. The purpose of Halley's first two voyages was to test his geomagnetical theories; in the third voyage he investigated tidal phenomena. These voyages, wh ...Show more
Newfoundland Discovered - English Attempts at Colonisation, 1610-1630 by Gillian T. Cell (Editor)
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Category: Nautical | Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Series Volume160
Despite the relative obscurity surrounding the earliest English settlements in Newfoundland, the documents in this volume show that they were neither unimportant, nor, ultimately, unsuccessful. Unlike the sites of other English colonies founded in the New World in the early 17th century, Newfoundland ha ...Show more
The Voyage of Semen Dezhnev In 1648 - Bering's Precursor by Raymond H. Fisher (Editor)
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Category: Nautical | Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Series Volume 159 | Reading Level: very good
In 1736 Gerhard M ller, a member of the new Russian Academy of Sciences, while gathering historical materials in Siberia, uncovered in Yakutsk reports briefly describing a voyage in 1648 from the Arctic river, Kolyma, around a great rocky promontory to a point south of the Pacific river Anadyr'. The rep ...Show more
The Travel Journal of Antonio de Beatis Through Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, France and Italy, 1517-8 by Antonio de Beatis; J R Hale (Editor)
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Category: Nautical | Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Series Volume 150 | Reading Level: very good
In May 1517, Luigi of Aragon, one of the most wealthy, cultivated and well-connected of Italian cardinals, left Italy for a leisurely tour through Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries and France, which lasted until January 1518. Too grand to keep a record of his own movements, he was well-served by h ...Show more