Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series

The Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1857 volume is a compilation of narratives of journeys to India 'in the century preceding the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope; from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian sources'.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume (published in 1855) contains an account of the voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Spice Islands in 1604-1606 on behalf of the East India Company.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This translation by Hakluyt himself appeared in 1611 and was republished with annotations in 1851. The original author, an anonymous Portuguese 'Gentleman', participated in Ferdinand de Soto's 1539 expedition to Florida.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Volume 8 (1850) focuses on the earliest European experience of Japan, and includes a description of the country, its rulers and political system, and some letters from William Adams (1564-1620).

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.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This 1859 volume contains three accounts of the Amazon region, all translated from Spanish and covering the century 1539-1639. They reveal both the internal wrangling among the Spaniards and the external difficulties they faced.

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.

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.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1861 volume contains an early account of the most notorious sixteenth-century expedition in search of El Dorado, that of Lope de Aguirre, whose cruelty and treachery became legendary.

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.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume contains an edition of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1596 account of his discoveries in South America, including the city of El Dorado.

This volume (published in 1855) contains three narratives: Frederick Martens' description of a voyage to Spitzbergen in 1671; the Relation du Groeneland of Isaac de la Peyrere (first published in 1663); and an account of the survival of eight Englishmen stranded in Greenland for nine months in 1630.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume contains a collection of early accounts relating to the search for the 'North-West Passage' to the Far East, by such famous explorers as Cabot, Frobisher, Hudson and Baffin.