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Recently issued and forthcoming publications

Issued to members:
THIRD SERIES 18: Herbert Beals, Roy Bridges, R.J. Campbell, Ann Savours & Anita McConnell (eds): Four Travel Journals: America, Antarctica and Africa 1775-1874
Distributed to members in January 2008.

THIRD SERIES 19: G. Rex Smith (trans. & ed.): A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia: Ibn al-Mujawir's Tarikh al-Mustabsir
Distributed to members in the spring of 2008.

THIRD SERIES 20: C. Ian Jackson (ed.): Arctic Journals of William Scoresby the Younger (1789-1857). Volume II
Distributed to members in January 2009.

THIRD SERIES 21: C. Ian Jackson (ed.): Arctic Journals of William Scoresby the Younger (1789-1857). Volume III.
Distributed to members in November 2009.

Coming up in spring 2010:
THIRD SERIES 22: Andrew David (ed.): William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific, 1795-1798. A fully annotated transcription of Broughton's unpublished log of his surveys along the coasts of Japan, Korea, Sakhalin and the islands of the northwest Pacific, together with the narrative of his journey across Mexico. With numerous maps, illustrations and previously unpublished letters, and a comprehensive historical introduction by Barry Gough.

Titles in preparation

The works listed below have been accepted by Council for publication at a future date. They are in various stages of development and no firm dates for the issue of these volumes can be announced at present. Titles listed here are provisional working titles only.

Russian California. Vol. 1. Edited by James Gibson.

Pedro Paez's History of Ethiopia. Edited by Manuel João Ramos and Hervé Pennec.

Publication of at least one of the above will take place in 2010 depending on which has first been made ready for press.

Russian California. Vol. 2. Edited by James Gibson.

The Iceland Journals and Correspondence of Joseph Banks, 1772-1820. Edited by Anna Agnarsdóttir. Publication expected soon.

Afanasii Nikitin, Voyage over Three Seas. A Russian Merchant's Account of a Voyage to India in 1466-1472. Edited by A. V. Postnikov. This fairly modest text will probably appear as an article in the Journal of the Hakluyt Society.

A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors. Edited by Derek Massarella. In preparation.

English Trade and Privateering in the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Seventeenth Century: The 'journall' of the Voyage of the Levant Company Merchantman Blackham to Istanbul and Izmir, 1696-1698. Edited by Colin Heywood. In preparation.

The Journal of Captain Bartholomew Sharpe, Buccaneer, 1680-1682. Edited by James Kelly. In preparation.

Bibliography of Richard Hakluyt, 1552-1616. Edited by Anthony Payne. In preparation.

Renaissance Methods for Travel 1570-1633. Edited by Joan-Pau Rubiés. In preparation.

The East African Journal of J. A. Grant, 1860-1863. Edited by Roy Bridges. In preparation.

The Commentaries of Don Garcia de Silva y Figueroa. Edited by George Souza & Jeff Turley. In preparation.

Australia Circumnavigated: The Journal of HMS Investigator, 1801-1803. Edited by Kenneth Morgan. In preparation.

Thomas Birch Freeman, 'Reminiscences and incidents of travels and historical and political sketches in the Gold Coast and countries bordering…’ Edited by David Killingray.