TRAVELLERS AND EXPLORERS
BENBOW, John
1681--1708
Son of Admiral Benbow. Sailed in HM and E.India Co. ships. E Indies, Madagascar (shipwrecked, captured, escaped).
BENNET, George
Missionary (LMS).
See TYERMAN, Daniel
BENOIT, P.J.
- "Voyage à Surinam: description des possessions néerlandaises..." Brussels / 1839 / Soc. des Beaux-Arts.
BENSLEY, Mrs R.L/
- "Our journey to Sinai. A visit to the convent of St. Catarina." London / 1896.
BENT, James Theodore
1852-1897
Yorkshireman, archaeologist, traveller in Asia Minor and Southern Africa. Edited diaries of Thomas DALLAM and Dr John COVEL for the Hakluyt Society (Series I, no.87.1893).
- "Aegean Islands: the Cyclades, or life among the insular Greeks." Repr. cat. 1969 / Argonaut.
- "The ruined cities of Mashonaland... excavation and exploration in 1891." 1892, --- , 1895. Repr. London / (cat. 1969) / Frank Cass.
BENTLEY, Rev. W. Holman
- "Life on the Congo." 1887.
- "Pioneering opn the Congo. " 2 vols. 1900. Repr. 1966.
BENYOWSKY, Mauritius Augustus, Comte de
1741-1784
Hungarian adventurer. Travelled in Siberia, Kamchatka, Japan, Formosa 1771-77. "Prone to exaggeration." (MM). Cox i. 352, 353.
- "Memoirs and travels..." Tr. Nicholson. 1790. New ed. Capt. Pasfield Oliver. London / 1893 / Unwin. (Another ed. 1904)
BENZONI, Girolamo
b.1519
Italian traveller.
- "History of the New World by GB, of Milan. Showing his travels in America from... 1541 to 1556..." 1857 / Hakluyt Society (Series I, no. 21) Original Italian ed. Venice / 1565.
BERCHTHOLD, Count Leopold
- "An essay to direct and extend the inquiries of patriotic travellers." London / 1789.
BERESFORD, William
-Surgeon
- "A voyage... to the NW coast of America 1785-8." London / 1789.
See DIXON, George; PORTLOCK, Nathaniel; NICOL, John; SNOW.
