Captain Cook, RN - The Resolute Mariner - An International record of Ocean Discovery by Thomas Vaughan; C. M. Murray-Oliver
$15.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
Into the Dark Continent - The travels of Henry Morton Stanley by Hnery Morton Stanley; Frank McLynn (ed.)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: near fine
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)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | 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
The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578 by James McDermott (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | 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
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)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Travel | 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 Discovery of River Gambra 1623 by Richard Jobson by Richard Jobson; David P. Gamble (Editor); P. E. H. Hair (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | 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
Searching for Franklin - The Land Arctic Searching Expedition 1855 - James Anderson's and James Stewart's Expedition via the Black River by William Barr (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No1 | Reading Level: very good
In the Autumn of 1854 Dr John Rae of the Hudson's Bay Company astonished the world with the first news of the fate of the Franklin expedition, missing in the Arctic since 1845, on the basis of stories, rather vague as to time and place, which he had heard from Inuit in the vicinity of Pelly Bay. The res ...Show more
The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768 by John Dunmore (Editor); Louis Antoine de Bougainville
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 9 | Reading Level: very good
The French entered the Pacific in the late 17th century, but the ocean remained largely a Spanish preserve until British navigators began to cross its vast expanse in the mid 1760s. France's concerns that Britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed Louis de Bougainville's vo ...Show more
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.)
$25.00 NZD
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
The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave Levant Merchant 1647-1656 by Richard Bargrave; Michael Brennan (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 3 | Reading Level: very good
This is the first fully annotated old-spelling edition of the entire text of the autograph English journal of Robert Bargrave (1628-61), recording his extensive travels as a merchant. This manuscript (now Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C 799), describes four separate journeys made by Bargrave: his sea vo ...Show more