Late Qajar Dynasty Tehran
Following in Louis Freycinet’s “footsteps”
“The navigator’s vade mecum for the Eastern seas” – one of the most influential English travel books of the sixteenth century
The first U.S. Navy Survey of Haitian Ports
Keeping a watch on Women’s Suffrage
The world in your pocket
“Whoso committe themselves unto the huge, and mayne Ocean, in a small vessell, may sooner expect to be swallowed in that vastity of waters, through the rage and furie of the Sea, then [sic] hope to gaine the desired, and intended haven” (Lok)
“a newe unexpected and neverheretofore discovered Passage” (Phillip)
From the library of George Sandys: “one of the most important men in the history of colonial Jamestown” (Grizzard)
