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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

Email: [email protected]

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A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, by Lionel Wafer Surgeon on Buccaneering Expeditions in Darien, the West Indies, and the Pacific, from 1680 to 1688. With Wafer's Secret Report (1698), and Davis's Expedition to the Gold Mines (1704)

A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, by Lionel Wafer: Surgeon on Buccaneering Expeditions in Darien, the West Indies, and the Pacific, from 1680 to 1688. With Wafer's Secret Report (1698), and Davis's Expedition to the Gold Mines (1704)

1st Edition

Edited By L.E. Elliot Joyce
July 28, 2010

The text of the 1699 edition, with slight changes, and additional material, edited with introduction, notes and appendices. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934....

A Regiment for the Sea, and other Writings on Navigation, by William Bourne of Gravesend, a Gunner, c.1535-1582

A Regiment for the Sea, and other Writings on Navigation, by William Bourne of Gravesend, a Gunner, c.1535-1582

1st Edition

Edited By E.G.R. Taylor
July 28, 2010

William Bourne, of Gravesend, by trade a gunner, was a successful writer of a new type of textbook. Neither a scholar nor of gentle birth, both of which were regarded as the prerequisites of authorship in the 16th century, when the scientific books were expected to appear only in universities and ...

A Relation of a Voyage to Guiana by Robert Harcourt 1613 With Purchas' Transcript of a Report made at Harcourt's Instance on the Marrawini District

A Relation of a Voyage to Guiana by Robert Harcourt 1613: With Purchas' Transcript of a Report made at Harcourt's Instance on the Marrawini District

1st Edition

Edited By Sir C. Alexander Harris
July 28, 2010

Edited with introduction and notes. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1928....

Bombay in the Days of Queen Anne, Being an Account of the Settlement written by John Burnell

Bombay in the Days of Queen Anne, Being an Account of the Settlement written by John Burnell

1st Edition

By Sir William Foster, Samuel T. Sheppard, Sir Evan Cotton, L.M. Anstey
July 28, 2010

In addition to the main text, with introduction and notes, there is 'added Burnell's narrative of his adventures in Bengal, With an Introduction by Sir William Foster, and Notes by Sir Evan Cotton, C.I.E., and L.M. Anstey'. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first ...

Byron's Journal of his Circumnavigation, 1764-1766

Byron's Journal of his Circumnavigation, 1764-1766

1st Edition

Edited By Robert E. Gallagher
July 28, 2010

In 1764 the Hon. John Byron was commissioned by the Admiralty to sail to the South Atlantic to search for Pepys's Island and the Southern Continent. He was then to continue into the Pacific itself and look for a possible North-west passage. Although he rediscovered the Falkland Islands, it was ...

Carteret's Voyage Round the World, 1766-1769 Volume I

Carteret's Voyage Round the World, 1766-1769: Volume I

1st Edition

Edited By Helen Wallis
May 15, 2017

Captain Philip Carteret sailed to the South Seas as second in command to Samuel Wallis on a voyage of discovery of the Southern Continent. Separating from Wallis at the exit to the Strait of Magellan he went on to make an independent voyage which has earned him the reputation of being the ablest ...

Civil Wars in Peru, The war of Las Salinas, by Pedro de Cieza de León

Civil Wars in Peru, The war of Las Salinas, by Pedro de Cieza de León

1st Edition

Edited By Sir Clements Markham
July 28, 2010

Book I of Cieza's chronicle, translated, with an introduction. For other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see Second Series 31 and 42. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1923....

Civil Wars of Peru, by Pedro de Cieza de León (Part IV, Book II): The War of Chupas

Civil Wars of Peru, by Pedro de Cieza de León (Part IV, Book II): The War of Chupas

1st Edition

Edited By Sir Clements R. Markham
July 28, 2010

This forms part of the original Book II of Cieza's 'Civil Wars of Peru', translated and edited. For other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see Second Series 31 and 54. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1918....

Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana, 1623-1667

Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana, 1623-1667

1st Edition

Edited By V.T. Harlow
July 28, 2010

Journals, narratives, and descriptions relating to British colonization in the islands of St Christopher, Nevis, Barbados, Tobago and Trinidad, and in Guiana, the voyage of Sir Henry Coltand, and to Admiral de Ruyter's raid in the West Indies, 1664-5. This is a new print-on-demand hardback ...

Documents concerning English Voyages to the Spanish Main, 1569-1580 I .Spanish Documents selected from the Archives of the Indies at Seville; II. English Accounts, Sir Francis Drake revived, and Others Reprinted

Documents concerning English Voyages to the Spanish Main, 1569-1580: I .Spanish Documents selected from the Archives of the Indies at Seville; II. English Accounts, Sir Francis Drake revived, and Others Reprinted

1st Edition

Edited By Irene A. Wright
October 25, 2016

In English translation. For further documents, see Second Series 62, 99 and 111. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1932....

Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century Including Hessel Gerritsz. 'Histoire du pays nommé Spitsberghe,' 1613 and Jacob Segersz. van der Brugge 'Journael of dagh register,' Amsterdam, 1634

Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century: Including Hessel Gerritsz. 'Histoire du pays nommé Spitsberghe,' 1613 and Jacob Segersz. van der Brugge 'Journael of dagh register,' Amsterdam, 1634

1st Edition

Edited By Sir W. Martin Conway, Basil H. Soulsby, J.A.J. de Villiers
July 28, 2010

'Early Dutch and English Voyages' translated into English, for the first time, by Basil H. Soulsby, F.S.A., of the British Museum; Segersz's text translated into English, for the first time, by J. A. J. de Villiers, of the British Museum. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Sir W. Martin Conway...

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