EXHIBITION

cabinet sixteen: europe

The Travels of Peter Mundy in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667. Vol. I. Travels in Europe, 1608-1628. Cambridge: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1907. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 17

Francis Mortoft: His Book Being His Travels Through France and Italy, 1658-1659. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1925. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 57

cabinet seventeen: way down south

Map reproduced from The ‘Resolution’ Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775. Vol. I. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1982. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 152

The ‘Resolution’ Journal of Johann Reinhold Forster, 1772-1775. Vol. IV. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1982. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 155

The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands: The Voyages of the Brig Williams 1819-1820, as Recorded in Contemporary Documents, and The Journal of Midshipman C. W. Poynter. London: The Hakluyt Society, 2000. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 3 no. 4

cabinet eighteen: dr esmond de beer, president 1972-78

Annual Report, The Hakluyt Society, London, 1975. Journal G 161 H34 1975Michael Strachan, Esmond de Beer (1895-1990): Scholar and Benefactor: A Personal Memoir. Norwich, [England]: Michael Russell,

1995. Special Collections DA3 D42 SW32 Photograph of Esmond de Beer, 1975. By Gary Blackman, DunedinThe Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, 1772-1775. Ed. by J.C.

Beaglehole. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1961. Central G420 C63 The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780. Part One. Ed.

by J.C. Beaglehole. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1967. Central G420 C63 The Charts & Coastal Views of Captain Cook’s Voyages. Vol. One. The Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771. Edited by Andrew David.

London: The Hakluyt Society in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1988. Central G420 C65 CF86

vitrines

1. Modern Scholarship on Voyaging and Travelling2. Ray Howgego, Independent Researcher, Scholar, and Traveller3. Maps from the Hakluyt Society Publications4. The Globe

references:Hakluyt Society publications, including R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair’s edited Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996: with a Complete List of the Society’s Publications (1996); Hakluyt Society website: http://www.hakluyt.com/; Ray Howgego’s Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800 (2003) and Encyclopedia of Exploration 1800 to 1850 (2004); ODNB; Wikipedia

Thanks to: Professor Jim Bennett, John Holmes, Ray Howgego, John Hughes, Simone Marshall, and John Robson (Waikato University; Hakluyt Society representative in New Zealand).

Journeys

IntrepidTRAVELlinG with the hakluyt society

Journeys

Intrepid

TRAVELlinG with the hakluyt society

Intrepid Journeys is an exhibition that highlights two aspects. The first is the Hakluyt Society, established in London in 1846 with a commitment to print rare or unpublished voyages and travels. Beginning in 1847 with The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt in his Voyage into the South Sea in the year 1593, their publication programme has continued, enthralling readers around the world with the accounts of a wide range of voyagers and travellers, who manage to document something of their toil and adventures as they traverse unknown and distant regions. The second aspect celebrates the work of Dr Esmond de Beer, the Dunedin-born scholar of John Evelyn and John Locke, who was President of the Hakluyt Society from 1972 to 1978. De Beer and his sisters were generous and indefatigable supporters of the Society and its activities. He is the University of Otago Library’s prime benefactor, giving his large library collection to Special Collections.

Intrepid Journeys. Travelling with the Hakluyt Society begins on 16th June and runs through to 8th September 2017. Rather than concentrate on well-travelled paths, more attention is given to lesser known accounts, those that reveal something of those strange, exotic, out of the way areas of the world that have been explored, travelled, and mapped. Books and places on display range from 16th century Japan, 14th century Greenland, and Ibn Battuta’s 14th century ‘Muslim’ journeys, to 17th century India, mysterious Timbuktu, and the interior of Australia in the 19th century. Magellan’s circumnavigation is covered as well as some of James Cook’s voyages, including J.C. Beaglehole’s edited publications, and those by Johann Reinhold Forster on board the Resolution, 1772-1775. Importantly, there is one feature of these Hakluyt Society publications that dominates: the maps. Not only do these documents help ground the reader in what is the real world, terra firma, but they also offer excellent visual impact.

The Hakluyt Society produces very pleasing, scholarly editions that make such journeying easy and accessible; ideal for the armchair traveller. Please enjoy the journey.

cabinet five [drawer]: the frozen north

The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers, Nicolo & Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas in the XIVth Century. London: Hakluyt Society, 1873. Journals G161 H2 Ser.1 no.50

The Iceland Journal of Henry Holland, 1810. London: Hakluyt Society, 1987. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no.168

cabinet six: middle east

The Travels of Ibn Battuta, A.D. 1325-1354. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1958. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no.110

The Desert Route to India: Being the Journals of Four Travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route between Aleppo and Basra, 1745-1751. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1929. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no.63

cabinet seven: africa

Father Francisco Alvares, The Prester John of the Indies: A True Relation of the Lands of Prester John, Being the Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in 1520. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1961. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no.114

Pieter van den Broecke’s Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola, 1605-1612. London: Hakluyt Society, 2000. Journals G161 H2 Ser.3 no.05

‘Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing 1824-1826’ in Missions to the Niger, I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1962. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no.123

cabinet eight: north america

The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590: Documents to Illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent Granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584. London: Hakluyt Society, 1955. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no.104

The Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter, 1606-1609. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1969. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no.137

cabinet nine [drawer]: india

Thomas Bowrey, A Geographical Account of Countries round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679. Cambridge: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1905. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 v.12

The Travels of the Abbé Carré: in India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674. London: Hakluyt Society, 1947. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no.95

cabinet ten [drawer]: australia

La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. Vol.1. Cambridge: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1966. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no. 126 The Central Australian Expedition 1844-1846. The Journals of Charles Sturt. London: The Hakluyt Society, 2002. Journals G161 H2

Ser.3 no.10

cabinet eleven: circumnavigation ii

The Pilgrimage of Arnold von Harff. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1946. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 94Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1937. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 79

cabinet twelve [drawer]: s. e. asia

The Voyage of Sir Henry Middleton to the Moluccas, 1604-1606. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1943. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 88Travels of Fray Sebastien Manrique 1629-1643. Vol. I: Arakan. Oxford: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1927. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2

no. 59

cabinet thirteen [drawer]: carribean sea

Lionel Wafer, A New Voyage & Description of the Isthmus of America. Oxford: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1934. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 73

Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana, 1623-1667. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1925. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 56

cabinet fourteen: the atlantic

The Cabot Voyages and Bristol Discovery under Henry VII. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1962. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 120The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the ‘Paramore’, 1698-1701. London: Hakluyt Society, 1981. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 156

cabinet fifteen: south america

Reports on the Discovery of Peru. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1872. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 1 no. 47The Voyage of Pedro Álvares Cabral to Brazil and India from Contemporary Documents and Narrative. London: Printed for the Hakluyt

Society, 1938. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 81Robert Harcourt, A Relation of a Voyage to Guiana. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1928. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 60

cabinet one: richard hakluyt

Richard Hakluyt, Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America. [London for Thomas Woodcocke, 1582: Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, facsimile, 1967]. Special Collections E121 Q75

Richard Hakluyt reading a book, from a stained glass window created by Charles Earner Kempe in 1905 in Bristol Cathedral. Wikimedia Commons

The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt in his Voyage into the South Sea in the Year 1593. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1847. Special Collections E129 H4 A3 1847

Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation. London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, 1589; two volume facsimile: Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society and the Peabody Museum of Salem at the University Press, 1965. Special Collections G242 H419 1965

cabinet two: the hakluyt society

Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996: with a Complete List of the Society’s Publications. Edited by R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair. London: Hakluyt Society, 1996. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no.183

Select Letters of Christopher Columbus. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1847. Special Collections E115.2 E5 1847 Annual Report, The Hakluyt Society. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1988. Journals G161 H34 The Hakluyt Society Dinner, The Canterbury Club, Christchurch, 17 October 1997. Christchurch: Antipodean Papers, [1998]. Private

Collection

cabinet three: circumnavigation i

The First Voyage Round the World by Magellan. Translated from the Accounts of Pigafetta. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1874. Journals G161 H2 Ser.1 no.52

Carteret’s Voyage Round the World, 1766-1769. Cambridge: University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1965. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no. 124

cabinet four [drawer]: china & japan

Travels of Fray Sebastien Manrique 1629-1643. Vol. II: China, India. Oxford: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1927. Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 61

The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton 1582-1583. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1959. Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no.113

João Rodrigues’s Account of Sixteenth-century Japan. London: Hakluyt Society, 2001. Central G161 H2 Ser.3 no.07

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