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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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 1863 volume contains
a Victorian translation of Ludovico di Varthema's account of his
travels, originally published in 1510, and translated into many
European languages within a few years. Ludovico set off from Italy
in 1502 (determined, he says, 'to investigate some small portion of
this our terrestrial globe') and travelled first to Egypt and
Syria; he then journeyed through the Arabian peninsula (where he
was imprisoned as a spy), Persia and India, and reached the Molucca
islands before returning to Europe in 1508.
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