Ancient journeys and adventures

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Old travel and adventure is one of the German ethnologist Hans Plischke founded and in 1922 published the book series , in Leipzig at FA Brockhaus published. It contains travel reports by Fernao de Magalhaes , Vasco da Gama , Christopher Columbus , Carl Friedrich Behrens and many others. The monographic series appeared again from 1926, when all volumes published up to then were reprinted, until 1930. All volumes were also illustrated, if possible with representations from the respective epoch. It comprises a total of 24 volumes. The series contains excerpts from important travel reports that are critically explained. Plischke himself published a few volumes in it. In 1951 he published his monograph From Cooper to Karl May : A story of the ethnographic travel and adventure novel (Düsseldorf: Droste). Another series of the Brockhaus-Verlag appeared under the title Reisen und Abenteuer .

Overview

  • 1 Fernão de Magalhães : The first circumnavigation of the world . Plischke, Hans. 1922
  • 2 Schmidel, Ulrich : Adventures in South America 1534 to 1554 [A detailed and lovely description of a number of prominent Indian landscapes and islands ...] Edited from the manuscripts. v. Curt Cramer. 1922
  • 3 Cook, James : The Search for the South Country; Damm, Hans. 1922
  • 4 Kolb, Peter : Journey to the Promontory of Good Hope. 1922 [Caput bonae spei hodiernum (Ger.)]
  • 5 Christopher Columbus . Plischke, Hans. 1923
  • 6 Captain (Arthur) Philipp . Establishment of the Sydney penal colony. Plischke, Rudolf. 1923
  • 7 The well-tried southerner: Journey around the world 1721/22 / Carl Friedrich Behrens . Edit according to the orig. by Hans Plischke. 1923
  • 8 Exploring Greenland. Egede, Hans . 1923
  • 9 Cortes, Hernando . The conquest of Mexico. Edit v. HG Bonte. 2nd ed.
  • 10 Francis Drake : As a privateer in Spanish America. Arranged by H. Damm. 1924
  • 11 At the court of the great khans. Polo, Marco . 1924
  • 12 From Gambia to Niger. Park, mongoose . 1924
  • 13 Vasco da Gama . The way to the East Indies. Edit v. H. Plischke. 2nd ed.
  • 14 Francisco Pizarro . Bonte, Hans Georg. 1925
  • 15 Smith, John : Among the Indians of Virginia. Arranged by HG Bonte. 1926
  • 16 Georg Wilhelm Steller : From Kamchatka to America. Edit v. M. Heydrich.
  • 17 Travel and Research in Africa. Herodotus . 1926
  • 18 Tacitus . Germania. An excerpt from the history of the discovery of the Germanic lands by the Greeks and Romans. Edit v. H. Philipp. 1926 (1936, 2nd edition)
  • 19 John R. Jewitt : Makwinna's Prisoner. My adventures and sorrows with the Indians at Nutkasund. Translated from English and edited by Arnold Jacobi. 1928
  • 20 The first German expedition to Persia (1635–1639). Olearius, Adam . 1927
  • 21 Dobrizhoffer, Pater : At a losing position with the Abiponen. Edit v. Walter v. Hauff. 1928
  • 22 Involuntary Journey Around the World 1621–1628. Fernberger von Egenberg , Christoph Mathias. 1928
  • 23 Hans Staden : A German Landsknecht in the New World. Edit v. R. Lehmann-Nitsche . 1929
  • 24 The Book of the Kings of Tezcuco. Alva, Fernando . 1930 ( Historia Chichimeca , Ger.)

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Thomas Keiderling: FA Brockhaus. 1905–2005 , Brockhaus, 2005, pp. 112–114.
  2. ↑ Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte 12 (2003), p. 62.
  3. ↑ Publishing house advertising (excerpt)

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