Books in the Hakluyt Society, Third Series series

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.

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.