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Full Description
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Leo Africanus (c. 1494-c. 1554) was an Arab diplomat captured by Spanish corsairs in 1518 and taken to Rome. He was later released by Pope Leo X and enjoyed papal patronage until he left Rome in 1527. This three-volume work describes the region of north Africa known as the Maghreb and was considered the most authoritative account of the cultures, religions and politics of this region until the start of European exploration in the nineteenth century.
Contents
Volume ICecil; His address to the reader; His general description of Africa; His description of places undescribed by Leo; An appropriation of Leo's history by Richard Hakluyt and others; John Leo his first book of the description of Africa. Volume II: The second book; Notes to Book II; The third book; Notes to Book III; The fourth book; Notes to Book IV. Volume III: The fifth book; Notes to Book V; The sixth book; Notes to Book VI; The seventh book; Notes to Book VII; The eighth book; Notes to Book VIII; The ninth book; Pory's relation of the great princes of Africa; His discourse of the religions professed there; And of fortresses and colonies maintained there by the Spanairds and Portuguese; Indexes.
