Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth

A special volume of essays to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Society with a full listing and index of Hakluyt Society publications 1847-1995. Containing: P.E.H. Hair ’The Hakluyt Society: from Past to Future’; R.C. Bridges ’William Desborough Cooley and the Foundation of the Hakluyt Society’; Tony Campbell ’R.H. Major and the British Museum’; R.J. Bingle ’Henry Yule: India and Cathay’; Ann Savours ’Clements Markham: longest serving Officer most prolific Editor’; C.F. Beckingham ’William Foster and the Records of the India Office’; D.B. Quinn ’R.A. Skelton of the Map Room’; Michael Strachan ’Esmond S. de Beer: Scholar and Benefactor’; and R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair ’The Hakluyt Society and World History’.