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Hakluyt Society, Second Series


About the Series

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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Memorias antiguas historiales del Peru, by Fernando Montesinos

Memorias antiguas historiales del Peru, by Fernando Montesinos

1st Edition

By Sir Clements R. Markham, Philip Ainsworth Means
July 28, 2010

Text written in the seventeenth century, translated and edited by Philip Ainsworth Means, with an Introduction by the late Sir Clements R. Markham. The translation is from the Spanish edition of Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, published Madrid, 1882. Also includes 'Eight chronological tables ... ...

Missions to the Niger Volume I: The Journal of Friedrich Horneman's Travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the Years 1797-98; The Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing, 1824-26

Missions to the Niger: Volume I: The Journal of Friedrich Horneman's Travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the Years 1797-98; The Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing, 1824-26

1st Edition

Edited By E.W. Bovill
May 15, 2017

This is the first of several volumes on the exploration of the Niger following its discovery by Mingo Park. It begins with the travels of Friedrich Hornemann and then leaps a quarter of a century to the great journey of Alexander Gordon Laing. The travels of Lyon, Oudney, Denham and Clapperton will...

New Light on Drake,  A Collection of Documents relating to his Voyage of Circumnavigation, 1577-1580

New Light on Drake, A Collection of Documents relating to his Voyage of Circumnavigation, 1577-1580

1st Edition

Edited By Zelia Nuttall
July 28, 2010

This volume contains Spanish official documents, depositions by prisoners, documents relating to Nuño da Silva, etc., translated and edited. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1914. Owing to technical constraints the contemporary engraved portrait of ...

New Light on the Discovery of Australia, as Revealed by the Journal of Captain Don Diego de Prado y Tovar

New Light on the Discovery of Australia, as Revealed by the Journal of Captain Don Diego de Prado y Tovar

1st Edition

By George F. Barwick, Henry N. Stevens
July 28, 2010

Spanish text, with English translation, of Prado's Relación of the voyage begun in company with Quirós and Torres in 1607, together with a report of the Spanish Council of State concerning Quirós, 1618, and letters of Torres and Prado, 1607-13. Contents: New light on the discovery of Australia.-...

Peter Floris, his Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe, 1611-1615 The Contemporary Translation of his Journal

Peter Floris, his Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe, 1611-1615: The Contemporary Translation of his Journal

1st Edition

Edited By W.H. Moreland
October 26, 2016

This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934....

Relations of Golconda in the Early Seventeenth Century

Relations of Golconda in the Early Seventeenth Century

1st Edition

Edited By W.H. Moreland
July 28, 2010

William Methwold's 'Relation', reprinted from Purchas his Pilgrimes and two other 'relations', one by Antony Schorer, translated from the Dutch, the other anonymous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1931. Owing to technical constraints it has not ...

Richard Hakluyt and his Successors A Volume Issued to Commemorate the Centenary of the Hakluyt Society

Richard Hakluyt and his Successors: A Volume Issued to Commemorate the Centenary of the Hakluyt Society

1st Edition

Edited By Edward Lynam
July 28, 2010

Containing: (i) 'Richard Hakluyt, by J. A. Williamson, D.Lit.', (ii) 'Samuel Purchas, by Sir William Foster, C.I.E.' (iii) 'English Collections of Voyages and Travels 1625-1846, by G. R. Crone and R. A. Skelton', (iv) 'The Hakluyt Society. A Retrospect 1846-1946, by Sir William Foster, C.I.E.' [on ...

Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, 1585-86

Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, 1585-86

1st Edition

Edited By Mary Frear Keeler
July 28, 2010

Significant in the history of Anglo-Spanish relations and of English ventures was Drake's expedition to the West Indies in 1585-86. His raids on Spanish towns on both sides of the Atlantic were aimed not only to gather treasure but to bring a military challenge to the empire of Philip II. The ...

Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646 Being Extracts from The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia by Manoel de Almeida Together with Bahrey's History of the Galla

Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646: Being Extracts from The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia by Manoel de Almeida Together with Bahrey's History of the Galla

1st Edition

Edited By C.F. Beckingham, G.W.B. Huntingford
July 28, 2010

The selections from Almeida, translated and edited, describe the country and its people and the journeys of Jesuit missionaries attempting to enter or leave Ethiopia. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1954....

South China in the Sixteenth Century (1550-1575) Being the narratives of Galeote Pereira, Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, O.P. , Fr. Martin de Rada, O.E.S.A., (1550-1575)

South China in the Sixteenth Century (1550-1575): Being the narratives of Galeote Pereira, Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, O.P. , Fr. Martin de Rada, O.E.S.A., (1550-1575)

1st Edition

Edited By C.R. Boxer
July 28, 2010

Translations, the first based largely on that in Richard Willes, History of Travayle in the West and East Indies (1577), the second derived from Purchas his Pilgrimes (1624), the third by the editor from three sixteenth-century Spanish versions. With appendices on various matters, including a ...

Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga

Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga

1st Edition

Edited By J.S. Cummins
December 28, 1970

An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. Antonio de Morga was an official of the colonial bureaucracy in Manila and could consequently draw upon much material that would otherwise have been inaccessible. His book, published in 1609, ranges more ...

The Book of Duarte Barbosa, An Account of the Countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants Written by Duarte Barbosa, and Completed about the year 1518 A.D. Volume I

The Book of Duarte Barbosa, An Account of the Countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants: Written by Duarte Barbosa, and Completed about the year 1518 A.D. Volume I

1st Edition

Edited By Mansel Longworth Dames
July 28, 2010

'Translated from the Portuguese Text First Published in 1812 A.D. by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon, in Vol. II of its Collection of Documents regarding the History and Geography of the Nations beyond the Seas', edited and annotated. With a translation of chapter 2, the history of Rander, ...

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