The Life of the Icelander Jon Olafsson: Traveller to India, Written by himself and completed about 1661 AD with a continuation, by Another Hand, up to his Death in 1679

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Author: Jón Ólafsson (c1594-1679) edited by Bertha Surtees (Dame Bertha Newall) Year: 1923-1931 Publisher: Hakluyt Society Place: London Description: 2 volumes: xxxiv+238+[xliii list of works by the society] pages with frontispiece and 2 other plates, 3 maps of which 2 are foldouts, 1 chart and index; xxx+290 pages with frontispiece and 2 other plates and index. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover, decorative blind stamp to covers. Translated and edited from the Icelandic edition of Sigfus Blondal by Betrtha S Phillpotts. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Numbers 53 and 68. First edition. The autobiography of Jon Olafsson, Traveler to the Indies, remained unprinted in Icelandic, save for a few excerpts, until 1908-9, when an edition by Sigfus Blondal, Librarian to the Royal Library, was published in Copenhagen by the Icelandic Literary Society. The text in this edition, which was based on a scholarly collation of the extant MMS., has been implicitly followed in the English translation. The life of Jon Olafsson falls into three parts; or perhaps more properly, since only the first two parts are written by himself, into two parts and an appendix. The first part, opening with his childhood and youth in the remote north-west of Iceland, his voyage to England in 1615, and his brief stay in that country, has for its main subject his experiences as gunn

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