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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

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The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco islands Being the Second Voyage set forth by the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East-Indies. From the Edition of 1606

The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to Bantam and the Maluco islands: Being the Second Voyage set forth by the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East-Indies. From the Edition of 1606

1st Edition

Edited By Bolton Corney
July 28, 2010

The 1606 title-page begins: The last East-Indian voyage. The appendix includes commissions, letters of James I addressed to foreign rulers, and other documents. For a second edition, see Second Series 88. The supplementary material includes the 1856 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand ...

The Voyages and Works of John Davis the Navigator

The Voyages and Works of John Davis the Navigator

1st Edition

Edited By Albert Hastings Markham
July 28, 2010

This edition, with introduction and notes, includes: The worldes hydrographical Discription (1595), The seamans secrets (1607), a list of works on navigation available before and during the reign of Elizabeth, and her latters patent to Adrian Gilbert and others for the exploration of a North-West ...

The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631-32 With Narratives of the earlier North-West Voyages of Frobisher, Davis, Weymouth, Hall, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge, and others Volume I

The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631-32: With Narratives of the earlier North-West Voyages of Frobisher, Davis, Weymouth, Hall, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge, and others Volume I

1st Edition

Edited By Miller Christy
May 15, 2017

Containing part of the text of North-west Fox, London, 1635. This and the following volume (First series 89) have continuous main pagination. The supplementary material consists of the 1893 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1894....

The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies, during the Seventeenth Century, preserved in the India Office. And the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to seek the North-West Passage

The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies: With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies, during the Seventeenth Century, preserved in the India Office. And the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to seek the North-West Passage

1st Edition

Edited By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010

The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Sir Henry Middleton, Thomas Love, Nicholas Downton, and Ralph Cross. With a calendar of ships' journals of the seventeenth century and a list of ships employed by the East India Company in the same period. For a revised edition of...

The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622

The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622

1st Edition

Edited By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010

Edited, with notes and an introduction from narratives and journals by John Gatonbe, Robert Fotherby, and others, with Baffin's letters, journals, and other observations, and various treatises on the probability of a North-West Passage. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume...

The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers, Nicolò and Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas in the XIVth Century Comprising the latest known Accounts of the Lost Colony of Greenland; and of the Northmen in America before Columbus

The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers, Nicolò and Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas in the XIVth Century: Comprising the latest known Accounts of the Lost Colony of Greenland; and of the Northmen in America before Columbus

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Henry Major
July 28, 2010

The Italian text of the Zenos' narrative (compiled from the letters of Nicolò Zeno by Nicolò Zeno the Younger), and the Danish and Latin texts of Ivar Bardsen's description of Greenland in the fourteenth century, with English translation. Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction. This ...

The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios. Collated with an unpublished manuscript of Francis Fletcher, chaplain to the expedition

The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake: Being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios. Collated with an unpublished manuscript of Francis Fletcher, chaplain to the expedition

1st Edition

Edited By William Sandys Wright Vaux
January 27, 2017

The work is edited with 'Appendices illustrative of the Same Voyage', and introduction, from the 1628 edition 'collected out of the notes of Master Francis Fletcher', collated with British Library, Sloane MS 61. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1854....

The travels of Ludovico de Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508

The travels of Ludovico de Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508

1st Edition

Edited By George Percy Badger, John Winter Jones
July 28, 2010

Translated from the Original Italian Edition of 1510, with a Preface, by John Winter Jones, Esq., F.S.A. And Edited, with Notes and an Introduction, by George Percy Badger. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1863....

Tractatus de globis et eorum usu. A Treatise descriptive of the Globes constructed by Emery Molyneux And published in 1592, by Robert Hues. With 'Sailing Directions for the Circumnavigation of England, and for a Voyage to the Straits of Gibraltar, from a 15th Century MS'

Tractatus de globis et eorum usu. A Treatise descriptive of the Globes constructed by Emery Molyneux: And published in 1592, by Robert Hues. With 'Sailing Directions for the Circumnavigation of England, and for a Voyage to the Straits of Gibraltar, from a 15th Century MS'

1st Edition

Edited By Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010

The text is edited, with 'Annotated Indices and an Introduction'. In addition to the treatise, the volume contains 'Sailing Directions for the Circumnavigation of England, and for a Voyage to the Straits of Gibraltar, from a 15th Century MS' which originally appeared as Volume 79(b) in the series. ...

Travels to Tana and Persia, by Josafa Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini

Travels to Tana and Persia, by Josafa Barbaro and Ambrogio Contarini

1st Edition

By William Thomas, S.A. Roy, Lord Stanley of Alderley
July 28, 2010

Translated from the Italian by William Thomas, Clerk of the Council to Edward VI, and by S. A. Roy, Esq., and Edited, with an Introduction, by Lord Stanley of Alderley. Originally bound together with 49b but separately paginated. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first ...

Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan 1615-1622, with Correspondence, Volumes I-II

Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan 1615-1622, with Correspondence, Volumes I-II

1st Edition

By Edward Maunde Thompson
April 03, 2017

Volume I: Ends December 1617. Volume II: Years 1618-1622, together with Cocks's correspondence with the East India Company and others. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1883....

Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia by Anthony Jenkinson and other Englishmen With some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian Sea

Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia by Anthony Jenkinson and other Englishmen: With some Account of the First Intercourse of the English with Russia and Central Asia by Way of the Caspian Sea

1st Edition

By Charles Henry Coote, Edward Delmar Morgan
February 16, 2017

Edited from the manuscript writings of Jenkinson and other agents of the Muscovy Company in the second half of the sixteenth century, and including correspondence between Elizabeth I and Ivan IV, and reports to Cecil and the Council. Continued in First Series 73, with continuous pagination. This ...

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