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An Account of a Voyage to the East Indies
Back from the East Indies, Christian Burckhardt sketches them province by province.
80°48N, Eleven Days Trapped in the Ice
1773: two Royal Navy ships attempt to force a passage through the ice to the North Pole. Captain Phipps's logbook, between pack ice, soundings with no bottom, and eleven days trapped in the ice at the Seven Islands.
A German in Illinois
Dreaming of a German colony in Illinois, a nobleman roams the Sangamon country, still home to Native Americans.
The World Tour of Francesco Carletti
A Florentine merchant circles the globe out of curiosity, from Cape Verde to Japan and China, before losing everything at Saint Helena. A firsthand account, 1591-1606.
Circumstantial Geographical Description of Pennsylvania
He crossed the Atlantic in 1683 and founded Germantown, the first German settlement in Pennsylvania.
Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India
In Goa, the physician Garcia de Orta tests Galen and Avicenna against what he has seen, tasted and treated of the drugs of India.
The Embassy of His Imperial Majesty of Great Russia to the Emperor of China
From Saint Petersburg to Peking, Unverzagt follows Peter the Great's embassy to the court of Kangxi.
Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742
Shipwrecked at the end of the world, he describes the last sea cow just before it vanishes.
Beyond the Second Cataract
Two Cambridge antiquaries follow an invading army up the Nile as far as Meroë.
Embassy to the Ming Court
An envoy from Seoul, he reaches the Ming court in 1539, in the thick of an imperial succession crisis.
An Account of the Greenland Mission
He brings the Gospel to Greenland and observes, year after year, the ways of its people.
A Description of Greenland
He founded Nuuk, baptised the Inuit and swore he had seen a sea monster off Greenland.
Divers Voyages and Northerne Discoveries
Four voyages, a mutiny, a disappearance in the ice: the journal of a cursed explorer.
Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
Alone, a Viennese woman reaches Constantinople, Jerusalem, Damascus and the Nile, and becomes a travel icon.
Journey to China
Via Rangoon and Malaya, a Bengali reaches Qing China in the midst of the Russo-Japanese War.
Account of the Voyage of the Bishop of Berytus
A bishop without a diocese crosses Asia through Turkey, Persia and India to Siam, to found the first French mission toward the Far East, in 1660-1666.
Journey to Mauritius
Years before Paul and Virginia, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre observes Mauritius and its colonial society.
A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions
Amid the southern ice, James Clark Ross presses on with his Antarctic voyage and magnetic surveys.
The Journal of the Endeavour, Volume I: Cape Horn, Tahiti and the Shores of New Zealand
Summer 1768: Cook sets sail aboard the Endeavour to observe the transit of Venus and search for the southern continent. Cape Horn, Tahiti, the violent shores of New Zealand: the first volume of the authentic journal.
Cook's Last Voyage, Volume I: The Cape of Good Hope, the Kerguelen Islands and New Zealand
February 1776: Cook sets out again for the Pacific. Tenerife, the Cape of Good Hope, Kerguelen, then New Zealand, where a chief accused of murder faces the crew. Account rewritten in modern English, maps and illustrations.
Cook's Last Voyage, Volume II: The Cook Islands, the Friendly Islands and Tongatapu
February 1777: deprived of his Arctic season, Cook sets a course for the Friendly Islands. Two and a half months in a lavish and impenetrable Polynesia, amid colossal feasts and kings who are not kings at all.
Cook's Last Voyage, Volume III: Tahiti, the Society Islands, and the Discovery of Hawaii
August 1777: Cook returns to Tahiti, attends the sacrifice at Attahooroo, settles Omai at Huahine, then discovers the Sandwich Islands. Volume III of the last voyage, rewritten in modern English.
Cook's Last Voyage, Volume IV: The Coast of America, the Bering Strait and the Arctic Ice
1778-1779: James Cook sails up the north-west coast of America, crosses the Bering Strait, then anchors at Hawaii, where his journal comes to an end. Volume IV of the last voyage, rewritten in modern English, maps and illustrat...
Cook Towards the South Pole, Volume I: The Antarctic Circle, New Zealand and Tahiti
July 1772: Cook sets sail to settle the question of the southern continent. The first to cross the Antarctic Circle, he discovers Dusky Bay and Tahiti. A period account rewritten in modern English, with maps and illustrations.
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