The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies
With Abstracts of Journals of Voyages to the East Indies During the Seventeenth Century, Preserved in the India Office, and the Voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to Seek the North-West Passage

Volume 56 of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1877) contains contemporary accounts of sixteenth-century voyages to India.

Clements R. Markham (Edited by)

9781108011471, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2010

352 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.45 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume, first published in 1877, contains four contemporary accounts of the voyages of Sir James Lancaster (c. 1555–1618) between 1591 and 1600 together with the journal of Captain John Knight from his 1606 voyage to discover the 'North-West Passage'. Sir James Lancaster was one of the leading traders and explorers of the Elizabethan era, whose first voyage to India in 1591 was instrumental in establishing the East India Company in 1600.

Dedication
Introduction
Narrative of the first voyage of Sir James Lancaster by Edmund Barker, Lieutenant
Narrative of the first voyage of Sir James Lancaster by Henry May
The voyage of Captain James Lancaster to Pernambuco
The first voyage made to East India by Master James Lancaster (now Knight) for the Merchants of London, Anno 1600
Abstracts
Index.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]