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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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. John Davis (c.1543 1605)
was an eminent explorer and navigator who published two highly
influential guides to practical navigation in 1594 and 1595 and
invented an improved version of a navigational instrument known as
the Davis quadrant. This book, first published in 1880, includes
these two guides, The Seaman's Secret and The Worlds'
Hydrographical Description, together with accounts of the three
voyages John Davis undertook in search of the North-West Passage
between 1585 and 1587.
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