Safarnama
Fatimid Cairo at its height, seen through the eyes of a Persian poet in 1047.
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.
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).
Captivity and Travels Through Three Empires
Held captive by Tamerlane for thirty years, the Bavarian squire Johannes Schiltberger crossed three empires, Ottoman, Timurid, and Tatar, and lived to tell of it. His account, dictated around 1430, remains the first Western vie...
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.
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.
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.