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Cook Towards the South Pole, Volume II: Tonga, Easter Island and the Marquesas
After reaching the southernmost point ever attained, Cook lands among the statues of Easter Island, returns to the Marquesas, witnesses Otoo's naval review at Tahiti, then pushes on as far as the New Hebrides.
Cook Towards the South Pole, Volume III: New Caledonia, South Georgia and the Return to England
Cook discovers New Caledonia, rounds Cape Horn amid the southern ice, closes the question of the southern continent, and returns without losing a single man to scurvy. Rewritten in modern English.
Cook's Last Voyage, Volume V: The Tragedy of Hawaii and the Sandwich Islands
January 17, 1779: James Cook drops anchor at Hawaii, hailed as Orono. A month later, he dies beneath the daggers. James King tells the story and paints a portrait of the Sandwich Islands. Volume V, rewritten in modern English.
Cook's Last Voyage, Volume VI: Kamchatka, Canton and the Return to England
March 1779: Cook's orphaned crew crosses Kamchatka by sledge, battles the Arctic pack ice, loses Captain Clerke, and completes their voyage around the world by way of Canton and the Cape. Volume VI, modern English.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts
New York, 1679. A Dutch missionary crosses colonial America and records everything: streets, farms, Indians, planters. A journal from the other side of the Atlantic, rewritten in modern English.
Northern Navigation
A veteran of Novaya Zemlya, the Dane Jens Munk sets sail in 1619 for Hudson Bay.
Tribulations of a Swiss Man on His Journey to Jerusalem and Lebanon
To revive his business, a Swiss man sets out for Constantinople, Egypt, Jerusalem and Lebanon.
Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania, Volume I: Toulon, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro and the Strait of Magellan
September 1837: a gout-ridden commander, doubted by his own sailors, sails from Toulon for the South Pole
Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania, Volume II: The Pack Ice, the South Orkneys, Louis-Philippe Land and Talcahuano
January 1838: on Weddell's route, two French corvettes run up against the pack ice and will spend five days trapped in it
Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania, Volume III: Talcahuano, Valparaiso, Mangareva and Nuku Hiva
April 1838: back from the ice, two French corvettes nurse their sick in Chile before crossing the Pacific to the Marquesas
Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania, Volume IV: Nuku Hiva, Tahiti, Tonga and the Fiji Islands
August 1838: from the Marquesas to Fiji, two French corvettes sail the South Seas to avenge a massacred crew
Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania, Volume V: Vanikoro, the Solomon Islands, the Carolines and Ambon
In the Carolines, canoes attack a French boat, and the crew fires back with muskets.
Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania, Volume VI: Banda, Port Essington, New Guinea and Makassar
At Port Essington, two French corvettes find a lonely English colony at the edge of Australia.
Voyage to the South Pole and Oceania, Volume VII: Batavia, Singapore, Borneo and Mindanao
From Batavia to Mindanao, two French corvettes skirt Borneo and the Sulu Islands.
Mukden Diary
Koreans from Uiju have killed Qing soldiers, and Kim Jong-jeong sets out to investigate the case.
Journey through Arabia Petraea
Crossing Sinai, Laborde and Linant de Bellefonds reach Petra and capture it in sixty-nine lithographs.
Forty Pilgrims in the Holy Land
A Paris journalist follows forty pilgrims all the way to Jerusalem.
The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema
Disguised as a pilgrim, an Italian infiltrates forbidden Mecca and returns alive.
Journey and Pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre
A gentleman of Glarus, Ludwig Tschudi is dubbed a knight of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 1519.
Wonderful and Remarkable Adventures of a Twelve-Year Slavery
Seized at sea by corsairs, a Dutchwoman survives twelve years as a slave in Morocco.
A Voyage to Terra Australis
Flinders fits out the Investigator, rounds the Cape, and follows the still unknown south coast of New Holland.
A Voyage to Terra Australis
Eight men drowned, a French rival met at sea, and the south coast of Australia drawn at last.
A Voyage to Terra Australis
Eleven days trapped in the Great Barrier Reef, and at the end of it a ship pronounced rotten.
A Voyage to Terra Australis
On a rotten hull, he completes the Gulf of Carpentaria and brings home a crew ravaged by sickness.
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