Books in the Hakluyt Society, Third Series series

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.