Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt in His Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593
Reprinted from the Edition of 1622

1847 edition of Sir Richard Hawkins' account of his 1593 voyage to the Far East via the Straits of Magellan.

Richard Hawkins (Author), Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune (Edited by)

9781108007986, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 February 2010

268 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.35 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 1, published in 1847, contains Sir Richard Hawkins's account of the voyage by which in 1593 he planned to sail to 'the Ilands of Japan, of the Phillippinas, and Molucas, the kingdomes of China, and the East Indies, by the way of the Straites of Magelan, and the South Sea'. The version of the book printed in 1622 was edited for the Hakluyt Society by Captain C .R. Drinkwater Bethune of the Royal Navy, and includes an editorial preface, explanatory footnotes and an index.

Editor's preface
Dedication
To the reader
The observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt in his voyage into the South Sea in the year 1593
Index.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]