Hakluyt Society

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The Hakluyt Society ( Hakluyt Society ) is a registered charity based in London , England , which aims to promote a better understanding of world history. She is best known as the editor of texts from the Age of Discovery , of which the list of travel works published by the Hakluyt Society gives a comprehensive impression.

The society, founded in 1846, is named after Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), a Welsh collector and editor of reports on expeditions and journeys and other documents relating to English overseas interests ( The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation ).

The main activity of the company is the reprinting of scientifically annotated editions from major sources on journeys made in various areas of the world. These form early reports on the geography , ethnology and natural history of the regions visited. To date, the society has published over 200 issues in around 350 volumes and various series (First Series Part I; First Series Part II; Second Series Part I; Second Series Part II; Third Series; Extra Series). All editions are published in English .

Previous editions of the Hakluyt Society are related to the following travelers and researchers, among others: Ibn Battuta , Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen , Pedro de Cieza de León , John Cabot , Christoph Columbus , Cosmas Indicopleustes , James Cook , Vasco da Gama , Humphrey Gilbert , Jean -François de La Pérouse , Ludwig Leichhardt , Afonso de Albuquerque , Louis Antoine de Bougainville , Semjon Iwanowitsch Deschnjow , Jean Barbot , Wilhelm von Rubruk , Plano Carpini , Rashid ad-Din , Francesco Pegolotti , Giovanni de Marignolli , Benedikt Goës , William Hedges , Alvaro de Mendaña , Leo Africanus , Ma Huan , Olaus Magnus , Francisco Álvares , François Pyrard , Hernando Cortez , Garcilaso de la Vega , Juan González de Mendoza , Sigmund von Herberstein , Walter Raleigh , Francis Drake , William Baffin , Barthelémy Carré de Chambon , Arthur Jermy Mounteney-Jephson , Johann Reinhold Forster , Jens Munk and George Vancouver .

There is also a subsidiary organization in the 1996 John Carter Brown Library on the campus of Brown University , founded American Friends of the Hakluyt Society ( American Friends of the Hakluyt Society ), which has a specialized focus on the history of America.

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