A Voyage to China and the East Indies

A Voyage to China and the East Indies

Author: Pehr Osbeck

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-08-29

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1108060315

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This is a two-volume 1771 English translation of writings by Swedish natural historians who travelled to Asia in the 1750s.


The Voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies

The Voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies

Author: Arthur Coke Burnell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1317012305

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The English translation is that of William Phillip. For the second volume, see First Series 71. The supplementary material consists of the 1884 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1885.


The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt. , to the East Indies

The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt. , to the East Indies

Author: Clements R. Markham

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-26

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781688784468

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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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume, first published in 1877, contains four contemporary accounts of the voyages of Sir James Lancaster (c. 1555-1618) between 1591 and 1600 together with the journal of Captain John Knight from his 1606 voyage to discover the 'North-West Passage'. Sir James Lancaster was one of the leading traders and explorers of the Elizabethan era, whose first voyage to India in 1591 was instrumental in establishing the East India Company in 1600.