[Sca-cooks] Russian and Persian Resources

[Johnna Holloway]

Also the full text of the
Russia at the close of the sixteenth century,  By Giles Fletcher, Sir  
Jerome Horsey, Jerome Horsey (sir.)
  catalogued as:
Russia at the close of the sixteenth century : comprising, the  
treatise "Of the Russe common wealth," by Giles Fletcher : and the  
Travels of Sir Jerome Horsey, now for the first time printed entire  
from his own manuscript.

London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1856.
  is available. The plain text edition may be easier for people to  
work from.

19th century Hakluyt Society publications can be searched in Google  
Books fairly easily. Use the Advanced Search feature and enter
Hakluyt Society under publishers. Once the list for 130,000 plus  
titles pops up, click on full view in the left column and the list  
will shorten to 87,000.
Then you can enter more search parameters to narrow the list to  
countries or by time.

Johnna


On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:52 AM, Sam Wallace wrote:

> Here are a couple of resources I found concerning Russia and Persia:
>
> Early voyages and travels to Russia and Persia

> http://books.google.com/books?id=nHEMAAAAIAAJ
> http://books.google.com/books?id=cAA7AAAAIAAJ
>
> Of the Russe Common Wealth
> http://books.google.com/books?id=XDs8AAAAcAAJ
>
> Guillaume