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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.

THIRD SERIES 22: Andrew David (ed.): William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific, 1795-1798.
Distributed to members in October 2010.

THIRD SERIES 23 & 24: Isabel Boavida, Hervé Pennec & Manuel João Ramos (eds): Pedro Paez's History of Ethiopia, 1622. An annotated English translation by Christopher Tribe of the História da Etiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez (Pêro Pais), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia.
Distribution of the two volumes began in late December 2011. They should be with UK members by early January, and with overseas members soon after, depending on shipping speed.





Titles in preparation for publication

The following are in an advanced state of preparation. Titles listed here are provisional working titles only.

Russian California. Edited by James Gibson. 3 vols. Delayed due to editorial difficulties.

Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590). Translated by J. F. Moran. Edited by Derek Massarella. Now with the Series Editor for distribution in 2012.

John Narbrough: Journal of a Voyage to the Strait of Magellan. Edited by Capt. Richard Campbell.
Following the acquisition of Narbrough's important journal by the British Library, the Society intends to publish this as a 'special edition' which will include a facsimile of the original in parallel with a readable transcription of the text.

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

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.

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.

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

Titles in progress

The following have been accepted for publication by the Society at a future date.

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

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


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


Grant’s Walk Across Africa 1860-63. Edited by Roy Bridges.


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


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

Voyage of Diego Flores de Valdés to the South Atlantic 1581-84. Edited by Carla Phillips.

Journal of John Saris on the Clove 1611-12 (British East India Company's 8th voyage). Edited by Richmond Barbour.

A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806–07. Edited by Angela Byrne.

This page updated 28 December 2011