Historical geography books

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Continues Second Series 15. Two further narratives, translated and edited, including one by Torquemada, and an appendix...  Read More >>

Edited with introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 77) is continuous....  Read More >>

Journals, narratives, and descriptions relating to British colonization in the islands of St Christopher, Nevis,...  Read More >>

The journals of William Beawes, Gaylard Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted, and John Carmichael. This is a new print-on-demand...  Read More >>

This is the first of several volumes on the exploration of the Niger following its discovery by Mingo Park. It begins...  Read More >>

Book I of Cieza's chronicle, translated, with an introduction. For other sections of the same source, in volumes...  Read More >>

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In 1845 Sir John Franklin's expedition left England, searching for a northwest passage, and vanished into the Arctic...  Read More >>

Vaclav Prutky, a Bohemian doctor of medicine and a Franciscan missionary, worked in Ethiopia 1752-1753. His account...  Read More >>

Translation of manuscript shipboard journals in French, with an account of the voyage.  Read More >>

This is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520...  Read More >>

James R. Gibson offers a detailed study that is both an account of this chapter of Russian history and a full examination...  Read More >>

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The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490 1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter...  Read More >>

Friar Domingo Navarrete, A Dominican missionary, travelled round the world and spent the best part of his life (1658-69)...  Read More >>

The Swedish scholar and prelate, Olaus Magnus (1490 1557), last Catholic archbishop of Uppsala, lived the latter...  Read More >>

An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. Antonio de Morga was...  Read More >>

Spanish text, with English translation, of Prado's Relacion of the voyage begun in company with Quiros and Torres...  Read More >>

In the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators....  Read More >>

Holland's manuscript, part of which was used in George Mackenzie's Travels in Iceland (Edinburgh, 1811), is here...  Read More >>

Friar Domingo Navarrete, A Dominican missionary, travelled round the world and spent the best part of his life (1658-69)...  Read More >>

In English translation. For further documents, see Second Series 71, 99 and 111. This is a new print-on-demand hardback...  Read More >>

Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, Joao Baptista Lavanha and...  Read More >>

This volume in the set includes the remainder of Book 3, all Book 4, part of Book 5, of a new and annotated edition...  Read More >>