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The Description of the Northern Islands
Around 1075, a canon of Bremen drafts the first written portrait of Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, and the mysterious Vinland, without ever leaving his cell.
Customs and Manners of the Mi'kmaq
Twenty years among the Mi'kmaq: a missionary learns their language, invents a writing system for them, before the fall of Louisbourg and the deportation of the Acadians. The period letter rewritten in modern English, including...
Shipwrecked and Captive in Korea
On 16 August 1653, the Dutch yacht De Sperwer breaks apart on the rocks of Quelpaert. Thirty-six survivors discover the hermit kingdom of Korea. Thirteen years will pass before eight of them reappear.
Travel Journals in New France
The three journals of Jacques Cartier, the captain from Saint-Malo who opened France's path to the Saint Lawrence between 1534 and 1542. A modernized and illustrated edition of the first French account of Canada.
Sumatra, by the Cape Route
In 1529, the Parmentier brothers left Dieppe for Sumatra by way of the Cape of Good Hope, the first French voyage to the East Indies, told day by day by the pilot Pierre Crignon.
The History of Lapland
The first great treatise on the Sámi: language, shamanism and survival in the heart of the Arctic.
The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval
Shipwrecked in the Maldives, captive five years: the first Frenchman to tell of the Indian Ocean.
The Journal of the Endeavour, Volume II: Around New Zealand and the Coast of New Holland
Cook completes the circumnavigation of New Zealand, crosses the Tasman Sea and discovers the east coast of Australia, from Botany Bay to Cape Tribulation. Second volume of the authentic Endeavour journal (1769-1770).
The Star Raft
Half a century before Vasco da Gama, a soldier of Zheng He's fleet describes forty-four countries across Asia, the Indian Ocean, Arabia, and East Africa. A Chinese view of the fifteenth-century world.
The Journal of the Endeavour, Volume III: The Coral Reef, Batavia and the Return to England
Cook narrowly escapes shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, takes possession of New South Wales, then faces the fevers of Batavia on the voyage home. Final volume of the authentic Endeavour journal, 1770-1771.
Captivity and Travels Through Three Empires
Held captive by Tamerlane for thirty years, the Bavarian squire Johannes Schiltberger crossed the Ottoman, Timurid and Tatar empires. His account, dictated around 1430, is the first Western view from within.
Colonial Description of Peru and Chile
Around 1605, a Spanish Dominican friar completes half a century of exploration of the New World, from Quito to the Strait of Magellan. A first-rank witness judges colonial America without sparing anyone.
The Antiquities of Constantinople
In 1544, the humanist Pierre Gilles surveys Constantinople for Francis I and records, hill by hill, what remains of the Byzantine city. The last methodical description of the city before its Ottoman transformation.
Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal
The navigator who discovered Tasmania and New Zealand without grasping the scale of his feat.
Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
A practical account of daily life in Venice and across Europe during the Renaissance.
Thirty Years on the Seas of the Indies
A Scottish merchant spends thirty-five years crossing the Indian Ocean, from the Cape to Basra and Bombay. Shipwrecks, trading posts, the court of the Great Mughal: up to the reckless war Aurangzeb wages against the English Com...
Thirty Years on the Seas of the Indies
After Africa and Arabia, the Scottish captain Alexander Hamilton follows the coasts of India to the Strait of Malacca: Goa, Malabar, Ceylon, Coromandel, Bengal, Pegu, as far as the contested trading posts of Southeast Asia.
Thirty Years on the Seas of the Indies, Volume III: The Malay Archipelago, China, and Japan
After India, the Scottish captain Alexander Hamilton crosses the Malay Archipelago, sails up the coasts of China, and brushes against the closed empire of Japan: Sumatra, Java, Siam, Canton, Amoy, Formosa, amid the tumult of As...
The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Shipwrecked in Florida, he spends eight years crossing Texas and northern Mexico on foot to the Pacific
Journey to the Holy Land
Future Austrian diplomat Prokesch von Osten sizes up the Holy Land in 1829, just before the Egyptian crisis.
Journal of a Voyage to the Coast of Patagonia
A Jesuit skirts the wild Patagonian coast, between missions and uncharted lands.
Travels in Kamtschatka
One man, one sledge, ten thousand miles of Siberia: the only survivor of the La Pérouse expedition.
Lachesis Lapponica, or a Tour in Lapland
A young naturalist among the Sami: Linnaeus in Lapland, 1732.
Remarks on Aleppo and on the Journey from That City to Cyprus
Returning from the Danish Arabia expedition, Carsten Niebuhr studies Aleppo, crossroads of the Levant, then sails for Cyprus.
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