The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617, Describing His Experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago Volume 16 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1905 Excerpt: ... and Stuart periods, are admirable examples of English prose at the stage of its most robust development. The Society has not confined its selection to the books of English travellers, to a particular age, or to particular regions. Where the original is foreign, the work is given in English, fresh translations being made, except where it is possible to utilise the spirited renderings of the sixteenth or seventeenth century. More than a hundred volumes have now been issued by the Society. The majority of these illustrate the history of the great age of discovery which forms the foundation of modern history. The discovery of America, and of particular portions of the two great western continents, is represented by the writings of Columbus, AMERIGO VESPUCCI, Cortes and Champlain, and by several of the early narratives from Hakluyt's collection. The works relating to the conquest of Peru, and to the condition of that country under the Incas, are numerous and of the highest value; similar interest attaches to Strachey's Virginia Britannia, De Soto's Discovery of Florida, and Sir Robert Schomburgk's edition of Raleigh's Discoverie of Guiana. The works relating to Africa already published comprise Barbosa's Coasts of East Africa, the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia of Alvarez, and The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543, as narrated by Castanhoso and Bermudez, The Travels of Leo the Moor, and The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell in Guinea. Notices of Australia, India, Persia, China, Japan, etc., as they appeared in early times to European eyes, both before and after the discovery of the Cape route, are also included in the series, a well-known example being the work on Cathay and the Way Thither, contributed by a former President, Sir Henry Yule, no...