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Agatharchides of Cnidus - On the Erythraean Sea by Agatharchides of Cnidus; Stanley M. Burstein (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
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
An Elizabethan In 1582 - The Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All Souls by Richard Madox; Elizabeth Story Donno (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Series Volume147 | Reading Level: good-very good
Chronicling, in the main, the initial (albeit abortive) attempt to establish a spice trade in the Moluccas, the Diary of Richard Madox, Fellow of All Souls, covers a single calendar year. Since five months of that year were to pass before the flotilla of four ships rounded the Lizard, the Diary also rec ...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.)
$40.00 NZD
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
Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth - Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society, 1846-1996 by R C Bridges (ed.); P E H Hair (ed.)
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Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 183 | Reading Level: very good
A special volume of essays to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Society, with a full listing and index of Hakluyt Society publications 1847-1995. Containing: P.E.H. Hair, 'The Hakluyt Society: from Past to Future'; R.C. Bridges, 'William Desborough Cooley and the Foundation of the Hakluyt Society'; ...Show more
English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1550-1646 by Joyce Lorimer (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | 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
François Valentijn's Description of Ceylon - (Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, 1726) by Francois Valentijn; Sinnappah Arasaratnam (Editor)
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Category: Nautical | Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Series Volume 149 | Reading Level: very good
Fran ois Valentijn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Old and New East Indies) has for long been regarded as a primary source of information on a number of regions of maritime Asia. It is a veritable encyclopaedia, bringing together an array of facts, trivial and vital, from a wide range of contemporary and ea ...Show more
Jerusalem Pilgrimage 1099-1185 by John Wilkinson; Joyce Hill; W F Ryan
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Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 167 | Reading Level: very good
In the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem many pilgrims came to Jerusalem. The translations in this book are of seventeen western accounts of pilgrimage, written between 1099 and 1185, and there are two additional accounts from eastern pilgrims, Abbot Daniel from Russia and John Phocas from Antioch. As a whole ...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.)
$25.00 NZD
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
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
Olaus Magnus - A Description of the Northern Peoples 1555 - Volumes I, II & III by Olaus Magnus; P G Foote (Editor)
$85.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volumes 182, 187, 188 | Reading Level: near fine
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
Petr Petrovich Semenov's Travels in the Tian'-Shan' 1856-1857 by Petr Petrovich Semenov; Colin Thomas (ed.)
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Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 189 | Reading Level: very good
In the mid-nineteenth century the eyes of western European explorers were firmly fixed on advancing inland from former maritime colonies in the Americas, Africa, the Indian sub-continent and Australasia, their motives often being inextricably bound up with concerns of imperial politics and commerce. Sim ...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