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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This two-volume description of the history and geography of China, translated into English in 1588 and republished in 1853, was the first detailed account of China available in English.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This two-volume 1885 edition of an early English translation of Linschoten's 1596 book describes the fauna, flora and peoples Linschoten encountered on his voyage to St Helena, Java and Sumatra.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume, first published in 1847 and revised in 1870, contains an edition of the letters of Christopher Columbus and others describing his first four voyages to the New World.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. Volumes 66 and 67, first published in 1883, contain the diary and selected correspondence of Richard Cocks (c.1565-1624), who was head of a British trading post in Japan from 1613 to 1622.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Three volumes, published in 1887, are devoted to the diary of William Hedges (1632-1701), the first Agent of the East India Company in Bengal, and its seventeenth-century colonial context.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This is a translation of the first detailed account of the geography and indigenous culture of South America, by Joseph de Acosta (1540-1600). Volume 1 describes the animals, plants and climate of South America.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Volume 1 of this four-volume Victorian English translation of The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque describes his expeditions to India and the Persian Gulf between 1503 and 1509.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This English translation of Zurara's fifteenth-century chronicle of the discovery of Guinea by explorers sponsored by his patron Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) first appeared in 1896-1899.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1892 volume contains the letters of a seventeenth-century Italian traveller to India. An important historical source on South India, it contains vivid descriptions and fascinating ethnographic details.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Leo Africanus (c. 1494-c. 1554) was an Arab diplomat who enjoyed the patronage of Pope Leo X. This work describes the cultures, religions and politics of northern Africa.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This volume (1869) contains an English translation of Books 1-4 of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas, by Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), the son of a Spanish soldier and an Inca princess.

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.

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.

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 1891 volume contains opposing accounts, one German and one Spanish, of Spanish activities in South America in the mid-sixteenth century, together with a short narrative by Hernando de Ribera.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume contains an anonymous journal of Vasco da Gama's expedition to India, the first to sail directly to India from Europe.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1897 volume contains accounts of early seventeenth-century expeditions to Greenland by Danish and English explorers, illustrated with four maps from the 1605 expedition, then only recently rediscovered.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Munk's Navigatio Septentrionalis tells of the Danish attempt to find a North-West Passage in 1619-1620, which reached Hudson's Bay but lost almost all the crew due to cold and disease.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) became a controversial figure after the publication of two letters attempting to undermine Christopher Columbus. These letters and other documents are provided in this volume.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume contains two diaries about Turkey. Dallam, an organ-builder, was sent by Queen Elizabeth to Constantinople in 1600. Covel went with the British ambassador from 1670-1677, and travelled widely.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This two-volume work, published in 1886, contains an account of Anthony Jenkinson's travels to Russia on behalf of the Muscovy Company in the late sixteenth century, with introduction and notes.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. This sixteenth-century narrative, published in English in 1862, is the self-justificatory account of a Spanish nobleman who sought his fortune in Peru and there witnessed the feud between Pizarro and Almagro.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1866 compilation, the second of two focusing on contacts with China before the discovery of sea routes, includes Arabic and Persian accounts as well as those of Europeans.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This compilation by R.H. Major (published 1859) brings together various manuscript and published sources which provide a picture of European exploration in the Southern Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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. 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 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. This two-volume work, published in 1886, contains an account of Anthony Jenkinson's travels to Russia on behalf of the Muscovy Company in the late sixteenth century, with introduction and notes.

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.