First published in 1931. 'Hall is the ideal travel-writer. He never wearies his readers but makes them love him. ' Times Literary Supplement Basil Hall's Fragments of Voyages and Travels originally appeared in nine volumes. Miscellaneous in their topics and arranged without any order the volumes re-issued here have been selected for their clarity and interest both geographical and historical. Few books give a more graphic picture of the Royal Navy a century ago and Hall's volumes are full of nautical information. Hall was also an indefatigable traveller and a keen observer who learnt Hindustani Malay and Japanese studied Hindu mythology flora fauna and geology and compiled the first ever vocabulary of the language of the Loo Choo Islands. . Language: English