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Voyages And Works Of John Davis, The Navigator

by John Davis

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume, published in 1880, contains two guides to navigation written by the explorer John Davis (c.1543â€"1605) and accounts of his 1580s voyages in search of the North-West Passage.
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Three Voyages Of William Barents To The Arctic Regions (1594, 1595, And 1596)

by Gerrit De Veer

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. These accounts of Dutch voyages in search of a north-eastern passage to China in the 1590s were first published in 1853, but a new edition was prepared in 1876 because of recent Arctic discoveries.
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Early Voyages And Travels To Russia And Persia - By Anthony Jenkinson And Other Englishmen

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This two-volume work, published in 1886, contains an account of Anthony Jenkinson's travels to Russia on behalf of the Muscovy Company in the late sixteenth century, with introduction and notes.
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Cathay And The Way Thither - Being A Collection Of Medieval Notices Of China

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1866 compilation, the first of two on contacts with China before the discovery of sea routes, contains a substantial introductory essay and narratives by several fourteenth-century missionary friars.
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Reports On The Discovery Of Peru

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1872 volume contains translations of four accounts of the Spanish conquest of Peru by eye-witnesses including Francisco Pizarro's secretary and his brother Hernando.
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The Voyage Of Francois Leguat Of Bresse To Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, And The Cape Of Good Hope - Transcribed From The First English Edition

by Francois Leguat

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This work contains the memoirs and observations of FranÃ§ois Leguat (1637â€"1735), the leader of a group of French Huguenots forced to colonise the Indian Ocean island of Rodriguez in 1693.
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The Voyage Of Francois Leguat Of Bresse To Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, And The Cape Of Good Hope - Transcribed From The First English Edition

by Francois Leguat

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This work contains the memoirs and observations of FranÃ§ois Leguat (1637â€"1735), the leader of a group of French Huguenots forced to colonise the Indian Ocean island of Rodriguez in 1693.
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Conquest Of The River Plate (1535â€“1555) - Translated For The Hakluyt Society With Notes And An Introduction

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1891 volume contains opposing accounts, one German and one Spanish, of Spanish activities in South America in the mid-sixteenth century, together with a short narrative by Hernando de Ribera.
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Tractatus De Globis Et Eorum Usu - A Treatise Descriptive Of The Globes Constructed By Emery Molyneux And Published In 1592

by Robert Hues

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Robert Hues (1553â€"1632) was an English mathematician and geographer who published this work in 1594 to explain the use of terrestrial and celestial globes in navigation.
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The Voyage Of Francois Pyrard Of Laval To The East Indies, The Maldives, The Moluccas And Brazil

by Francois Pyrard

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Volumes 77, 78 and 80 (1887â€"1890) contain Pyrard de Laval's account of how, shipwrecked on the Maldives in 1602-7, he learnt the language and studied the culture of the inhabitants.
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The Voyage Of Francois Pyrard Of Laval To The East Indies, The Maldives, The Moluccas And Brazil

by Francois Pyrard

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Volumes 77, 78 and 80 (1887â€"1890) contain Pyrard de Laval's account of how, shipwrecked on the Maldives in 1602â€"1607, he learnt the language and studied the culture of the inhabitants.
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The Voyage Of Francois Pyrard Of Laval To The East Indies, The Maldives, The Moluccas And Brazil

by Francois Pyrard

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Volumes 77, 78 and 80 (1887â€"1890) contain Pyrard de Laval's account of how, shipwrecked on the Maldives in 1602-1607, he learnt the language and studied the culture of the inhabitants.
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Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 To 1620: Volume 2, The Expedition Of Captain Jens Munk To Hudsonâ€™S Bay In Search Of A North-West Passage In 1619â€“2 - In Two Books

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Munk's Navigatio Septentrionalis tells of the Danish attempt to find a North-West Passage in 1619â€"1620, which reached Hudson's Bay but lost almost all the crew due to cold and disease.
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Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 To 1620: Volume 1, The Danish Expeditions To Greenland In 1605, 1606, And 1607 - In Two Books

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1897 volume contains accounts of early seventeenth-century expeditions to Greenland by Danish and English explorers, illustrated with four maps from the 1605 expedition, then only recently rediscovered.
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Letters Of Amerigo Vespucci, And Other Documents Illustrative Of His Career

by Amerigo Vespucci

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Amerigo Vespucci (1454â€"1512) became a controversial figure after the publication of two letters attempting to undermine Christopher Columbus. These letters and other documents are provided in this volume.
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Early Voyages And Travels To Russia And Persia - By Anthony Jenkinson And Other Englishmen

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This two-volume work, published in 1886, contains an account of Anthony Jenkinson's travels to Russia on behalf of the Muscovy Company in the late sixteenth century, with introduction and notes.
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The Life And Acts Of Don Alonzo Enriquez De Guzman: A Knight Of Seville, Of The Order Of Santiago, A.D. 1518 To 1543 - Translated From An Original And Inedited Manuscript In The National Library At Madrid, With Notes And An Introduction

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. This sixteenth-century narrative, published in English in 1862, is the self-justificatory account of a Spanish nobleman who sought his fortune in Peru and there witnessed the feud between Pizarro and Almagro.
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Voyage Of John Huyghen Van Linschoten To The East Indies - The First Book, Containing His Description Of The East

by John Huyghen Van Linschoten

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This two-volume 1885 edition of an early English translation of Linschoten's 1596 book describes the fauna, flora and peoples Linschoten encountered on his voyage to St Helena, Java and Sumatra.
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Narrative Of A Voyage To The West Indies And Mexico In The Years 1599â€“1602 - Translated From The Original And Unpublished Manuscript

by Samuel Champlain

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1859 translation was the first publication of an account of a 1599 journey to the West Indies and Mexico by Champlain, who is better known as the founder of Quebec.
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Henry Hudson The Navigator - The Original Documents In Which His Career Is Recorded

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume (1860) is a documentary biography of Henry Hudson, who was presumed dead around 1611 after being cast adrift in a small boat in Arctic waters by his mutinous crew.
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History Of The Imams And Seyyids Of Â€˜Oman - From A.D. 661â€“1856

by Salîl-Ibn-Razîk

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume contains the English translation of a manuscript by Salil Ibn Ruzayq, describing the history of Oman from the adoption of Islam c. 661 CE until 1856.
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The Christian Topography Of Cosmas, An Egyptian Monk - Translated From The Greek, And Edited With Notes And Introduction

by Cosmas Indicopleustès

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume, first published in 1897, contains the first English translation of Cosmas Indicopleustes' description of his travels to India, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia, written c.550 C.E.
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The Natural And Moral History Of The Indies

by Joseph De Acosta

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This is a translation of the first detailed account of the geography and indigenous culture of South America, by Joseph de Acosta (1540â€"1600). Volume 2 describes the indigenous cultures of South America.
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The Voyages Of Captain Luke Foxe, Of Hull, And Captain Thomas James, Of Bristol, In Search Of A North-West Passage, In 1631â€“32: Volume 1 - With Narratives Of The Earlier North-West Voyages Of Frobisher, Davis And Others

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 The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Two volumes from 1884 contain accounts of the attempts by Captains James and Foxe in 1631 to find a route through Arctic waters to Asia, together with those of earlier explorers.
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