This volume, published in 1860, contains writings by and contemporary accounts of Henry Hudson, who died about 1611.

This volume (1863) contains a fourteenth-century description of travels in Persia and India by Jordanus, a Dominican missionary.

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1861 volume contains a translation, preceded by an introductory essay, of a narrative by Pedro Simon (b. 1565) describing perhaps the most notorious of the many sixteenth-century...

This Hakluyt Society volume (1872) contains four eye-witness accounts of the Spanish conquest of Peru, in English translation.

This volume (1862) is the autobiography of a sixteenth-century Spanish nobleman who sought to make his fortune in Peru.

This volume of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1866) contains fourteenth-century narratives on European contacts with the east.

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume, first published in 1866, is the second of two compilations edited by Colonel Henry Yule on contacts with China before the discovery of sea routes to the east. It contains...