Journal of Christopher Columbus (During his First Voyage, 1492–93)
And Documents Relating the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real

This volume contains an account of Columbus' first voyage, and those of his contemporaries John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real.

Christopher Columbus (Author), Clements R. Markham (Edited and translated by)

9781108012843, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2010

344 pages, 1 b/w illus. 4 maps
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.44 kg

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volume 86, published in 1893, contains a translation of the journal of Christopher Columbus during his first voyage, together with documents relating to the subsequent voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real. Cabot was commissioned by Henry VII to explore in English interests. Less well known to most readers, Corte Real was a Portuguese who was sent by King Manuel I to look for a passage to Asia but seems to have reached only Greenland and north-east Canada before being lost.

Introduction
Sailing directions of Columbus
Letters of Toscanelli
Journal of the first voyage of Columbus
Documents relating to the voyages of John Cabot
Documents relating to Sebastian Cabot
Documents relating to the voyages of Gaspar Corte Real
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Colonialism & imperialism [HBTQ]