Routledge is pleased to be the publisher for the Hakluyt Society.
The Hakluyt Society has for its object the advancement of knowledge and education, particularly in relation to the understanding of world history. The society publishes scholarly editions of primary sources on the 'Voyages and Travels' undertaken by individuals from many parts of the globe. These address the geography, ethnology and natural history of the regions visited, covering all continents and every period over the last two thousand years. Such texts, many previously available only in manuscript or in unedited publications in languages other than English, are the essential records of the stages of inter-continental and inter-cultural encounter.
Established in 1846, the Society has to date published over 350 volumes. All editions are in English. Although a substantial number of the Society's past editions relate to British ventures, with documentary sources in English, the majority concern non-British enterprises and are based on texts in languages other than English. Material originally written in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French or Dutch has regularly appeared, material in Russian, Greek, Latin, Ethiopic, Chinese, Persian or Arabic occasionally.
All editions contain an introduction and scholarly annotation, giving both the general reader and the student a degree of assistance in understanding the material and providing guidance on the relevance of the episodes described, within the context of global development and world history. Volumes are often generously furnished with maps and contemporary illustrations.
Information about the Society may be obtained from the Administrative Assistant at the following address:
Hakluyt Society, c/o Map Library, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DG, UK
Email: [email protected]
Edited
By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010
Translated from an Original and Inedited Manuscript in the National Library at Madrid; with Notes and an Introduction'. Includes accounts of travel in Europe and Peru. The supplementary material includes the 1862 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first ...
Edited
By Clements R. Markham
May 15, 2017
Concerned chiefly with Mexico and Peru. With introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (First Series 61) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1880....
Edited
By C.R. Drinkwater Bethune
July 28, 2010
The text is edited 'with only such slight alterations as were necessary where the sense of the author had been obviously marred by a misprint'. Original index only. For a second edition see First Series 57. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1847....
Edited
By Henry E.J. Stanley
July 28, 2010
Translated from the Spanish, with Notes and a Preface, and a Letter from Luis Vaez de Torres describing his Voyage through the Torres Straits. The main text is from a transcription of the 1609 Mexico edition. The appendix includes a brief continuation of the history of the Philippines to 1868, ...
Edited
By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010
Translated and edited, with notes and an introduction, continuing the narrative from First Series 33. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1883....
Edited
By Richard Collinson
January 27, 2017
In addition to the main text, this also has Edward Sellman's account of the third voyage, and a list of artefacts from Frobisher encampments, etc, found by C. F. Hall and deposited with the Royal Geographical Society. The additional documents relate to numerous aspects of the financing and fitting ...
Edited
By Henry E.J. Stanley
July 28, 2010
Translated from the Portuguese, with Notes and an Introduction. The additional documents, mainly letters and reports to the king of Portugal, are in Portuguese. The supplementary material consists of the 1869 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first ...
Edited
By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010
Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, from the 1554 Antwerp edition. Continued from another source in First Series 68. The supplementary material includes the 1864 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1864....
Edited
By Edward Grey
May 15, 2017
Edited, with a Life of the Author, an Introduction and Notes. Letters 1-3, 1623. This and the following volume (First Series 85) have continuous main pagination. The supplementary material consists of the 1891 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first ...
Edited
By Samuel Pasfield Oliver
May 15, 2017
Transcribed from the First English Edition of 1708 and edited and annotated. This volume covers the years 1689-1693. Continued in First Series 83. The supplementary material includes the 1890 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1889....
By Harry Charles Purvis Bell, Albert Gray
July 28, 2010
The text is translated into English from the Third French edition of 1619, and edited, with notes. This volume covers from 1601 to Pyrard's arrival at Goa in 1608 and is continued in First Series 77 and 80. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1887....
Edited
By Arthur Coke Burnell
May 15, 2017
The English translation is that of William Phillip. For the second volume, see First Series 71. The supplementary material consists of the 1884 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1885....