Edited by E. W. Bovill]]> Books]]> Thomas Bowrey]]> Books]]> New Voyage describes his experiences with them. Travel writer, Lillian Joyce, in her introduction to this volume, states that Wafer’s book ‘remains the most authoritative source of information concerning the native folk of south-east Panama’.]]> Lionel Wafer]]> Books]]> A Relation details the geography, people, and natural history of the region; and recalls an occasion of almost mutiny, when the crew’s expectations of finding gold were not realised. The 1609-12 mission failed, as did another attempt at colonisation by Harcourt in 1629.]]> Robert Harcourt]]> Books]]> Annual Reports, like this one, provide information on new members, changes (obituaries), financial matters, and often carry the text of a talk recently given.]]> The Hakluyt Society]]> Pamphlets]]> Diary and The Correspondence of John Locke, he demanded of himself sound scholarship and research. He applied this rigour to the Society’s publications; there was no room for slipshod writing or muddled thinking. As a consequence, not a single volume was published during his Presidency. However, after the backlog was cleared in 1982, the Society could look back and affirm: ‘[de Beer’s] scholarship made a great deal of difference to their final texts, although it delayed (but rightly so) their publication’ (E.M.J. Campbell, Annual Report, 1990). De Beer’s talk ‘The Literature of Travel in the Seventeenth Century’ represents something of his interest in travel and discovery.]]> The Hakluyt Society]]> Pamphlet]]> Edited by Samuel T. Shepherd]]> Books]]> Dolphin, under the pretence of sailing for the East Indies. After reading his ‘secret instructions’, Byron ‘threw them overboard’, sailed across the Pacific, and went looking for the ‘half-historical, half-mythical’ Solomon Islands – he never found them. He returned to England in May 1766, having made the fastest round the world trip ever.]]> Edited by Robert E. Gallagher]]> Books]]> Dolphin, Carteret, in command of the Swallow, went on to discover Pitcairn Island, to re-discover Mendaña’s Santa Cruz, and to name Gower Island, part of the Solomon Island Archipelago. The original of Edward Leigh’s map of the Strait, and Carteret’s journal are in the Dixson Collection, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.]]> Edited by Helen Wallis]]> Books]]> Edited by Vincent Todd Harlow]]> Books]]> Edited by R. C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair]]> Books]]> Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582), in which, as an enthusiast of English overseas expansion, he advanced England’s claim to North America on the basis of priority of discovery. Hakluyt also included two maps in this work. This one was by Robert Thorne, produced in 1527 for the Muscovy Company. Note North America, and the fact that there is no passage to the Indies depicted.]]> Richard Hakluyt]]> Books]]> Edited by Sir William Martin Conway]]> Books]]> Edited by Kenneth R. Andrews]]> Books]]> Esmeraldo, shows the west coast of Africa, including Morocco, Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria and the Gabon. It shows Pacheco’s bearings and distances; his measurements were generally accurate ‘averaging little more than forty minutes out’. The tip of Spain is visible at the top of the map while the Equator is the bottom line.]]> Duarte Pacheco Pereira]]> Books]]> Esmeraldo (c. 1505) is a ‘rutter’ (roteiro – Portuguese), a ‘mariner’s handbook of written sailing instructions’. It describes routes, hazards, soundings, tides, and much more, and it is the ‘only detailed contemporary eye witness’s description of the coasts of Africa’. However, in Pereira’s time, the Portuguese government were keen to maintain secrecy and protect their monopoly of trade in the region so they suppressed the work; as they did with other ‘maps, nautical instructions, and pilots’ observations’. Their eagerness to maintain secrecy hindered the development of nautical science.]]> Duarte Pacheco Pereira]]> Books]]> Diary, published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1955. This photograph was taken by Gary Blackman at de Beer’s house at 31 Brompton Square, London.]]> Gary Blackman]]> Photographic prints]]> The Journals of Captain James Cook, another significant publication by the Hakluyt Society. De Beer and his two sisters, Dora and Mary, contributed to the publication costs of Beaglehole’s entire work (1955-1974). Indeed, if it was not for their quiet determination and generosity, these landmark volumes might never have been published. De Beer’s generosity did not stop there. He gave £4000 towards the publication costs of the first volume of Andrew David’s The Charts and Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages (1988), and left to the Society in his will a further £4000. Here is a young Esmond, and his two sisters.]]> Michael Strachan]]> Books]]> Edited by Malcolm Letts]]> Books]]> Edited by Malcolm Letts]]> Books]]> Victoria – the first ship to circumnavigate the globe. Built by the Basques, renowned boat builders of the time, Victoria was gifted to Magellan by Charles I of Spain. The 85-ton ship had a crew of 42; Magellan never made it home.]]> Hakluyt Society]]> Business cards]]> Translated by George Percy Badger]]> Books]]> Arte da Lingoa de Iapam, a Portuguese grammar of the Japanese language, a seminal work in its field. And because of his familiarity with language and custom, he was often employed as an interpreter between the Jesuits and the Japanese authorities. His original account – Historia da Igreja do Japāo – is no longer extant, and this publication, which describes the country, its people, customs and etiquette, was based on a copy made in Macao during the 1740s.]]> Edited by Michael Cooper]]> Books]]> Terra Australis, the mythical ‘great south land’, was an on-going dream for many early mariners. Supported by Pope Clement III and King Philip III of Spain, the Portuguese navigator Fernández de Quirós (c.1565-1615) left Peru (El Callao) in December 1605 with 300 crew and soldiers; all in the name of Christianity and Science. Sailing west across the Pacific, he made landfall in May 1606 on what he named Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. He believed that it was the promontory of some great southern continent. On Espiritu Santo (actually the largest island in Vanuatu), he established a colony called Nova Jerusalem, which did not last. This Hakluyt publication contains Martin de Munilla’s daily record of Quirós’s voyage, and ‘The Islands and their Peoples’, a paper by Dunedin’s own Dr Gordon Parsonson. Here is a copy of the only known map drawn by Quirós, dated 1598.]]> Translated and edited by Celsus Kelly]]> Books]]> Edited by James D. La Fleur]]> Books]]>