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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Francois Leguat (1637 1735) was a French Huguenot who became the leader of a group of seven Huguenot refugees forced to colonise the island of Rodriguez in 1693, after the French claimed...

Transcribed from the First English Edition of 1708 and edited and annotated. This volume covers the years 1689-1693. Continued in First Series 83. The supplementary material includes the 1890 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1889.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Francois Leguat (1637 1735) was a French Huguenot who became the leader of a group of seven Huguenot refugees forced to colonise the island of Rodriguez in 1693, after the French claimed...

Transcribed from the First English Edition of 1708 and edited and annotated. This volume covers the years 1693-1698, following on from First Series 82, with which the pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1891.