Richard J. Campbell Peter T. Bradley Joyce Lorimer
In 2009, after a public appeal, the British Library purchased a manuscript `Booke', which Captain Narbrough bought in 1666 and into which he subsequently entered his journals of his voyages and correspondence relating to them. The `Booke' contains his own fair copy of the journal of his voyage through the Strait of Magellan and north to Valdivia in the Sweepstakes, 1669-1671. This is published here for the first time, together with an incomplete and somewhat different copy of the journal, held in the Bodleian Library, which was made for him by a clerk after he returned to England, and which...
In 2009, after a public appeal, the British Library purchased a manuscript `Booke', which Captain Narbrough bought in 1666 and into which he subsequen...