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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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 volume contains the
first English translation (in 1863) of a Latin manuscript written
in about 1330 and published in France in 1839. Jordanus was a
Dominican missionary to India, who became bishop of Columbum
(probably a town on the Malabar coast). He recorded anything he
thought noteworthy on his travels from the Mediterranean to India
via Persia and back again, and his remarks on the climate, produce,
people and customs of the countries he passed through are a
valuable source of information.
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