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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
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; no. 56.
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; no. 56
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lancaster, James, Sir, -1618--Travel.
- Lancaster, James.
- Knight, John, d. 1606.
- Knight, John.
- East India Company.
- Voyages and travels.
- Civilization, Modern--17th century.
- Civilization, Modern.
- East Indies--Description and travel.
- East Indies.
- Northwest Passage.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v. (various pagings).
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The abstracts relate to the voyages of Keeling and Hawkins, Sharpie, Sir Henry Middleton, Thomas Love, Nicholas Downton, and Ralph Cross. With a calendar of ships' journals of the seventeenth century and a list of ships employed by the East India Company in the same period. For a revised edition of the Lancaster voyages, see Second Series 85. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1877.
- Contents:
- 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
- The voyage of Captains Keeling and Hawkins
- The Voygae of Captain Sharpeigh
- The Sixth voyage set forth by the East India Company : instructions to the factors
- Commission to Sir Henry Middleton for the sixth voyage
- The second voyage of Sir Henry Middleton, being the sixth set forth by the East India Company
- Journal of the sixth voyage, by Thomas Love
- Journal of the sixth voyage, kept by Nicholas Downton (1610-1613)
- Journal of Ralph Crosse, purser of the Homeander in the tenth voyage
- A calendar of the ships' journals preserved in the Inida Office (written within the seventeenth century)
- Journal of the voyage of John Knight to seek the North-West passage, 1606
- A list of ships of the East India Company (employed during the seventeenth century).
- Notes:
- "The Hakluyt Society"--cover.
- First published by Ashgate Publishing.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-317-01188-0
- 1-317-01189-9
- 1-315-55152-7
- 1-282-88065-9
- 9786612880650
- 1-4094-1562-7
- 9781315551524
- OCLC:
- 929147102
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