The Discovery of River Gambra 1623 by Richard Jobson by Richard Jobson; David P. Gamble (Editor); P. E. H. Hair (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 2 | Reading Level: very good
In 1623 Richard Jobson published an account of a 1620-1621 English voyage up River Gambra, during which a party, led by himself, penetrated to a point some 460 miles up-river. The purpose of the voyage was to make contact with the gold trade of the West African interior, but in this there was little suc ...Show more
The English New England Voyages, 1602-1608 by David B. Quinn (editor); Alison M Quinn (editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 161 | Reading Level: very good
The publication of the narrative accounts of the voyages of Gisnold (1602) and Waymouth (1605) opened up for English readers what was then known as Norumbega, the later New England; They are the first documents of exploration of that region to have been published since that of Verrazzano's voyage (1524) ...Show more
The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799-1830 by John Davies, C.W. Newbury (Editor)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Ser.
The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo by Jeronimo Lobo; M. G. Da Costa (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 162 | Reading Level: very good
Jerónimo Lobo was the last survivor of the small band of Jesuit Fathers who tried, with a measure of success, to reconcile Ethiopia to the Church of Rome. The narrative begins with Lobo's ordination in 1621 and ends seventeen years later. Chosen to serve in India he reached that country after being invo ...Show more
The Jamestown Voyages Under the First Charter 1606-1609 by Edited by Philip L. Barbour
$40.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society
The Journal of Rochfort Maguire 1852-1854 - Two Years at Point Barrow, Alaska Aboard HMS Plover in Search for Sir John Franklin Voume I and Volume II by Rochfort Maguire; John Bockstoce (Editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volumes 169-70 | Reading Level: very good
In 1845 Sir John Franklin's expedition left England, searching for a northwest passage, and vanished into the Arctic forever. Three years later HMS Plover's was the first departure of 21 expeditions searching for Franklin. Although most of the analyses of the Franklin Search have focused on the large ex ...Show more
The Letters Of F. W. Ludwig Leichhardt; Vol. I, II, & III by M. Aurousseau
$125.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society
The Purchas Handbook - Studies of the Life, Times and Writings of Samuel Purchas, 1577-1626 Volume I and Volume II by L. E. Pennington (Editor)
$80.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volumes 185 and 186 | Reading Level: very good
The Purchas Handbook follows the model of the Society's earlier Hakluyt Handbook in providing a reference guide to the works of the Reverend Samuel Purchas (1577-1626) and a critical evaluation of his achievements as collector, editor, and author of travel literature. The Handbook attempts to evaluate h ...Show more
The Roanoke Voyages: Vol. I & II by David Beers Quinn
$60.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society
Documents to illustrate the English voyages to North America under the patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584
The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578 by James McDermott (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Hakluyt Society | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 6 | Reading Level: very good
Martin Frobisher's third (1578) voyage to Baffin island was the consequence of flawed logic and excessive optimism on the part of the adventurers of the ephemeral 'Company of Cathay'. Their original intention - to find a north-western route to the Far East - had been largely forgotten following the imag ...Show more