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Sir Joseph Banks known for participating as naturalist in Cook's Endeavour voyage (1768-71), as a patron of science and as the President of the Royal Society (1778-1820). This volume brings together all Banks' papers concerning Iceland and the North Atlantic, scattered in repositories in Britain, the United States, Australia and Denmark.

English Travellers to Venice 1450 ¿1600 contains 35 separate accounts (with 27 colour and 45 black and white illustrations) of the experiences of a wide range of English travellers to Venice.

This volume publishes for the first time, the journal kept by John Looker (?1670-1715) recording his service as ship's surgeon on the Blackham Galley, a London-built merchantman on its second trading voyage to the Levant, between December 1696 and March 1698.

This volume brings to publication for the first time the manuscript of William Fergusson, a Scottish ship's surgeon who sailed for the East India Company in the 1730s. Written in 1767, while in retirement, Fergusson's diaries are the memories of his youth spent travelling the world during his apprenticeship.

Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes' monumental General y Natural Historia de las Indias is still a major primary source for researchers of the period 1492-1548. Book XX, which was printed in Valladolid in 1557, concerns the first three Spanish voyages to the East Indies.

Robert Schomburgk's surveys between 1841 and 1843 consisted of three journeys. The first took him to the mouth of the Orinoco River, the second involved the survey of the boundary with Brazil, and in the third, he covered the boundary with Dutch Guiana (modern Surinam). This book contains his reports of these journeys.

In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. This book is an account of their travels, their long journeys out and back, and the 20 months in Europe being received by popes and kings.

Contains an annotated English translation of the "Historia da Etiopia" by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Paez (or Pero Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John.

Contains reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844. Robert Schomburgk left his native Germany for North America in 1828, aged twenty-four. A year later he was in the Caribbean, where, after various business failures, he devoted himself to the investigation of natural history, especially botany.

Charles Poynter was one of the midshipmen who sailed with Edward Bransfield to survey the discovery of the South Shetland Islands. His account of the expedition forms the principal part of this volume, along with second-hand accounts which appeared in reports and journals at the time.

Offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four travel journals from the period 1775-1874. This work presents an account of a Spanish expedition sent from Mexico to explore the north-west coast of America in 1775, an account from a surveying operation in the Straits of Magellan in 1827; and more.

In August 1844, a heavily-laden party led by Captain Charles Sturt set out from Adelaide to head into the unexplored vastness of central Australia. Sturt was convinced that he would find an inland sea and so make his reputation. This book presents his diaries of the trip.

This volume provides an English translation of "The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville". It contains extensive editorial notes and a full explanatory introduction. The journals of other participants in the expedition are also included.

Contains an annotated English translation of the "Historia da Etiopia" by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Paez (or Pero Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John.