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The Description of the Northern Islands
Around 1075, a canon of Bremen drafts the first written portrait of Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, and the mysterious Vinland, without ever leaving his cell.
Customs and Manners of the Mi'kmaq
Twenty years among the Mi'kmaq: a missionary learns their language, invents a writing system for them, before the fall of Louisbourg and the deportation of the Acadians. The period letter rewritten in modern English, including...
Shipwrecked and Captive in Korea
On 16 August 1653, the Dutch yacht De Sperwer breaks apart on the rocks of Quelpaert. Thirty-six survivors discover the hermit kingdom of Korea. Thirteen years will pass before eight of them reappear.
Travel Journals in New France
The three journals of Jacques Cartier, the captain from Saint-Malo who opened France's path to the Saint Lawrence between 1534 and 1542. A modernized and illustrated edition of the first French account of Canada.
Sumatra, by the Cape Route
In 1529, the Parmentier brothers left Dieppe for Sumatra by way of the Cape of Good Hope, the first French voyage to the East Indies, told day by day by the pilot Pierre Crignon.
The Journal of the Endeavour, Volume II: Around New Zealand and the Coast of New Holland
Cook completes the circumnavigation of New Zealand, crosses the Tasman Sea and discovers the east coast of Australia, from Botany Bay to Cape Tribulation. Second volume of the authentic Endeavour journal (1769-1770).
The Star Raft
Half a century before Vasco da Gama, a soldier of Zheng He's fleet describes forty-four countries across Asia, the Indian Ocean, Arabia, and East Africa. A Chinese view of the fifteenth-century world.
The Journal of the Endeavour, Volume III: The Coral Reef, Batavia and the Return to England
Cook narrowly escapes shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, takes possession of New South Wales, then faces the fevers of Batavia on the voyage home. Final volume of the authentic Endeavour journal, 1770-1771.
Captivity and Travels Through Three Empires
Held captive by Tamerlane for thirty years, the Bavarian squire Johannes Schiltberger crossed the Ottoman, Timurid and Tatar empires. His account, dictated around 1430, is the first Western view from within.
Colonial Description of Peru and Chile
Around 1605, a Spanish Dominican friar completes half a century of exploration of the New World, from Quito to the Strait of Magellan. A first-rank witness judges colonial America without sparing anyone.
The Antiquities of Constantinople
In 1544, the humanist Pierre Gilles surveys Constantinople for Francis I and records, hill by hill, what remains of the Byzantine city. The last methodical description of the city before its Ottoman transformation.
Thirty Years on the Seas of the Indies
After India, the Scottish captain Alexander Hamilton crosses the Malay Archipelago, sails up the coasts of China, and brushes against the closed empire of Japan: Sumatra, Java, Siam, Canton, Amoy, Formosa, amid the tumult of As...
Thirty Years on the Seas of the Indies
A Scottish merchant spends thirty-five years crossing the Indian Ocean, from the Cape to Basra and Bombay. Shipwrecks, trading posts, the court of the Great Mughal: up to the reckless war Aurangzeb wages against the English Com...
Thirty Years on the Seas of the Indies
After Africa and Arabia, the Scottish captain Alexander Hamilton follows the coasts of India to the Strait of Malacca: Goa, Malabar, Ceylon, Coromandel, Bengal, Pegu, as far as the contested trading posts of Southeast Asia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Safarnama
In 1045, a Persian official leaves everything behind to seek what elevates the mind. Over seven years, Nasir Khusraw crosses Fatimid Cairo, Jerusalem, and Mecca: the first great travel journal of the medieval Muslim world.
The Discoverers of the North Atlantic
Around 860, storm-driven Norse sailors discover Iceland. Erik the Red invents Greenland; his sons reach America five centuries before Columbus. A Viking odyssey carried by the figure of Gudrid.
Drake's Expedition to the West Indies
September 1585: Francis Drake sails from Plymouth with twenty-five sail to strike the Spanish empire in the West Indies. Captain Walter Bigges recounts this ten-month raid, from Santiago to Roanoke.
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