Hakluyt Society
The Hakluyt Society ( Hakluyt Society ) is a registered charity ( registered charity ), headquartered in London, England, which has set itself the goal of promoting a better understanding of world history. He is best known as a publisher of historical texts from the Age of Discovery (see overview).
The company, founded in 1846 is named after Richard Hakluyt ( 1552-1616 ), a Welsh collector and editor of reports on expeditions and trips as well as other documents relating to the English overseas interests (The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation ).
The principal activity of the Company is the publication of scientifically annotated editions of the major sources of trips that have been made in various areas of the world. These include early accounts of geography, ethnology and natural history of the regions visited. The Company has to date, over 200 editions in 350 volumes and different rows ( First Series Part I, First Series Part II, Second Series Part I, Second Series Part II, Third Series, Extra Series) published. All editions are published in English.
In recent editions of the Hakluyt Society, this issue also includes the following persons: Ibn Battuta, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Pedro de Cieza de Leon, John Cabot, Christopher Columbus, Cosmas Indicopleustes, James Cook, Vasco da Gama, Humphrey Gilbert, La Pérouse, Ludwig Leichhardt, Afonso de Albuquerque, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Semyon Ivanovich Deschnjow, Jean Barbot, Wilhelm von Rubruk, Plano Carpini, Rashid ad-Din, Pegolotti, Marignolli, Benedict goes, 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 Herber stone, Walter Raleigh, Francis Drake, William Baffin Abbé Carré, AJ Mounteney - Jephson, Johann Reinhold Forster, Jens Munk and George Vancouver.
There is also a subsidiary organization in the John Carter Brown Library, founded American Friends of the Hakluyt Society (American Friends of the Hakluyt Society), which has a specialized focus on the history of America on the campus of Brown University in 1996.