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João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan by Michael Cooper (Editor); João Rodrigues
$45.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Ser.
Jo o Rodrigues sailed from Portugal to Japan in 1577, and there entered the Jesuit novitiate and was ordained priest. He met Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the virtual ruler of Japan, in 1591, and from that time became the missionaries' spokesman in dealings with Japanese authorities. He was also involved in negot ...Show more
Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola 1605-1612 by Pieter van den Broecke; James D. La Fleur (Editor)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 5 | Reading Level: very good
In the summer of 1630, Pieter van den Broecke returned to Amsterdam after completing his fifth voyage overseas as a commercial agent for various Dutch companies who were then expanding their worldwide trading networks. Van den Broecke used this homecoming to compose a lengthy manuscript describing his e ...Show more
The Discovery of River Gambra 1623 by Richard Jobson by Richard Jobson; David P. Gamble (Editor); P. E. H. Hair (Editor)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | 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 Discovery of the South Shetland Islands , 1819-1820 and the Journal of Midshipman C. W. Poynter by R. J. Campbell (Editor)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Ser.
In 1819, William Smith, with a general cargo from Montevideo to Valparaiso, sailed further south round Cape Horn than his predecessors, in the hope of finding favourable winds. He sighted land in 62S. His report to the Senior Naval Officer in Valparaiso was ridiculed, but on a subsequent voyage he conf ...Show more
The Malaspina Expedition 1789-1794 / ... / Volume III / Manila to Cadiz by Andrew David (Editor); Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Editor); Glyndwr Williams (Editor)
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Ser.
Among the voyages of exploration and surveying in the late 18th century, that of Alejandro Malaspina best represents the high ideals and scientific interests of the Enlightenment. In July 1789 he sailed from C diz in the purpose-built corvettes, Descubierta and Atrevida. On board the vessels were scient ...Show more
The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / the Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, William Hammond and Banaster Maynard by Michael G Brennan (Editor)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Hakluyt Society, Third Ser.
Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast to the renowned but maturely retrospective memoirs of other seventeenth-century figures such as John Evelyn), this study reassesses the early origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the ...Show more
The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578 by James McDermott (Editor)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | 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
The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave Levant Merchant 1647-1656 by Richard Bargrave; Michael Brennan (Editor)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 3 | Reading Level: very good
This is the first fully annotated old-spelling edition of the entire text of the autograph English journal of Robert Bargrave (1628-61), recording his extensive travels as a merchant. This manuscript (now Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C 799), describes four separate journeys made by Bargrave: his sea vo ...Show more
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