Hakluyt Societys utgivelser favner reisende som for eksempel Ibn Battuta, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Pedro de Cieza de León, John Cabot, Kristoffer Columbus, Cosmas Indicopleustes, James Cook, Vasco da Gama, Humphrey Gilbert, La Pérouse, Ludwig Leichhardt, Afonso de Albuquerque, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Semjon Ivanovitsj Dezjnjov, Jean Barbot, Villem av Rubruk, Plano Carpini, Rashid ad-Din, Pegolotti, Marignolli, Benedikt Goës, William Hedges, Alvaro de Mendaña, Leo Africanus, Ma Huan, Olaus Magnus, Francisco Álvares, François Pyrard, Hernando Cortez, Garcilaso de la Vega, Juan González de Mendoza, Sigmund von Herberstein, Walter Raleigh, Francis Drake, William Baffin, Abbé Carré, A. J. Mounteney-Jephson, Johann Reinhold Forster, Jens Munk og George Vancouver.