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Spanish and Portuguese Conflict in the Spice Islands: the Loaysa Expedition to the Moluccas 1525-1535

This Hakluyt Society volume is an English version of From Book XX of The General and Natural History of the Indies by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés[…]

The Levant Voyage of the Blackham Galley (1696 – 1698)

Levant Voyage of the Blackham Galley (1696 – 1698). The Sea Journal of John Looker, Ship’s Surgeon. Edited By Colin Heywood and Edmond Smith[…]

The voyages and manifesto of William Fergusson, a surgeon of the East India Company 1731-1739

This Hakluyt Society volume is the first publication on Fergusson's account of his four voyages, three of them as far as China in the 18 C.[…]

An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean

The pioneering account of Tonga by John Martin (1789-1869) who was an Edinburgh-educated medical man interested in anthropological subjects[…]

English travellers to Venice 1450-1600

This Hakluyt Society volume contains 35 separate accounts of visits by English travellers to Venice during the period 1450 to 1600.[…]