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Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia - A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of that Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century (Paperback)
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Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia - A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of that Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series
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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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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 compilation by R. H.
Major of the British Museum (published in 1859) brings together
various manuscript and published sources, some of them anonymous,
which provide a picture of European exploration in the Southern
Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It includes
passages from the writings of William Dampier, who not only
surveyed part of the coast of Australia ('New Holland'), but also
made detailed notes of the fauna and flora he encountered there.
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