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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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. Leo Africanus (c. 1494 c.
1554) was an Arab diplomat captured by Spanish corsairs in 1518 and
taken to Rome. He was later released by Pope Leo X and enjoyed
papal patronage until he left Rome in 1527. This work describes the
region of north Africa known as the Maghreb and was considered the
most authoritative account of the cultures, religions and politics
of this region until the start of European exploration in the
nineteenth century. Volume 1 contains a general description of
north Africa.
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