Voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies
The First Book, Containing his Description of the East
John Huyghen van Linschoten author William Phillip translator Arthur Coke Burnell editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:31st Aug '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This two-volume account (edited in 1885 from a 1598 translation) describes Linschoten's travels to the Indian Ocean and back.
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This two-volume 1885 edition of an early English translation of Linschoten's 1596 book describes the fauna, flora and peoples Linschoten encountered on his voyage to St Helena, Java and Sumatra.The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This account of the East Indian travels of John Huyghen van Linschoten, originally published in the Netherlands in 1596 and translated into English in 1598, was published by the society in 1885 using an edited version of the early translation, supplemented with explanatory notes. It provides a rich source of information about Portuguese trade with the East Indies, as well as descriptions of the fauna, flora and indigenous peoples of the regions he visited, from the Azores and St Helena to Java and Sumatra.
ISBN: 9781108010849
Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
Weight: 470g
366 pages