Son of the Elizabethan admiral John Hawkins, Richard Hawkins sailed through the Strait of Magellan into the Pacific in 1593 and was captured by the Spanish. His Observations, edited for the Hakluyt Society, mix the story of the voyage with shrewd advice on seamanship, scurvy, discipline and command.
One of the liveliest first-hand records of Elizabethan seafaring. Download the free EPUB.