Captain Cook, RN - The Resolute Mariner - An International record of Ocean Discovery by Thomas Vaughan; C. M. Murray-Oliver
$15.00 NZD
Category: Naval | Reading Level: very good
The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578 by James McDermott (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | 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 Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger Volume I - The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813 by William Scoresby; C. Ian Jackson (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No12 | Reading Level: very good
William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On 5 October 1810, his twenty-first birthday, ...Show more
The Discovery of River Gambra 1623 by Richard Jobson by Richard Jobson; David P. Gamble (Editor); P. E. H. Hair (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | 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
Searching for Franklin - The Land Arctic Searching Expedition 1855 - James Anderson's and James Stewart's Expedition via the Black River by William Barr (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No1 | Reading Level: very good
In the Autumn of 1854 Dr John Rae of the Hudson's Bay Company astonished the world with the first news of the fate of the Franklin expedition, missing in the Arctic since 1845, on the basis of stories, rather vague as to time and place, which he had heard from Inuit in the vicinity of Pelly Bay. The res ...Show more
The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768 by John Dunmore (Editor); Louis Antoine de Bougainville
$45.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series No 9 | Reading Level: very good
The French entered the Pacific in the late 17th century, but the ocean remained largely a Spanish preserve until British navigators began to cross its vast expanse in the mid 1760s. France's concerns that Britain might establish its superiority in the area, meant they welcomed Louis de Bougainville's vo ...Show more
Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage, 1741-1747 - Volume I - The Voyage of Christopher Middleton, 1741-1742 by William Barr (ed.); Glyndwr Williams (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 177 | Reading Level: very good
The 18th century saw a resurgence of hope that a Northwest Passage - that elusive target of European seamen over the centuries - might yet be found. Prompted by the Irish MP Arthur Dobbs, the Admiralty sent the Furnace and Discovery to Hudson Bay in 1741 in search of a navigable passage to the Pacific. ...Show more
Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883 by Juan Maria Schuver; Wendy James (ed.); Gerd Baumann (ed.); Douglas H Johnson (ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 184 | Reading Level: very good
Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam business family in the mid-19th century. Established young as a travel writer and reporter, he decided to embark on scientific exploration. Leaving Cairo at the turn of 1880-1881 he proceeded up the Blue Nile, intending to find a new route through to th ...Show more
The Last Voyage of Drake and Hawkins by Kenneth R. Andrews (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 142 | Reading Level: good-very good
This is an account of the expedition of royal and private ships which left Plymouth in 1595 under the command of Drake and Hawkins with the aim of capturing the city of Panama. The expedition ended in total failure, both leaders died and attempt to capture Grand Canary, Puerto Rico and Panama were all r ...Show more
The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck - His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke1253-1255 by Peter Jackson (Editor); David Morgan (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 173 | Reading Level: very good
"William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253-55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to the court of the Great Khan M ngke at Qaraqorum in Mongolia and back again. . . . William was interested in all that he saw. . . . His account is particularly ...Show more
Agatharchides of Cnidus - On the Erythraean Sea by Agatharchides of Cnidus; Stanley M. Burstein (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 172 | Reading Level: very good
Written some time before 100 BC the On the Erythraean Sea of Agatharchides of Cnidus is the most important source for an almost forgotten chapter of the history of geographical discovery, the exploration of the Red Sea and the region surrounding it by agents of the Ptolemaic government of Egypt in the c ...Show more
Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries by Henry Arrowsmith-Brown (Editor); Richard Pankhurst
$25.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 174 | Reading Level: very good
Remedius Prutky, Franciscan missionary, was in 1751 appointed vice-prefect of a mission sent to Ethiopia in response to an invitation by the then emperor Iyasu II; with two colleagues he left Cairo in August and reached Massawa in November. After some delay he was summoned to Gondar, which he reached in ...Show more