The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation; Volume VIII

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation; Volume VIII

Author: Richard Hakluyt

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781022061439

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A foundational text of English exploration and discovery, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation is an unparalleled collection of firsthand accounts from the Age of Discovery. Edited by Richard Hakluyt, this monumental work offers a firsthand look at the experiences of the explorers, merchants, and missionaries who transformed the world in the 16th and 17th centuries. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Voyages and Discoveries

Voyages and Discoveries

Author: Richard Hakluyt

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006-05-25

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0141922001

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Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English. One of the epics of this great period of expansion, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation describes, in the words of the explorers themselves, an astonishing era in which the English grew rapidly aware of the sheer size and strangeness of their world. Mingling accounts of the journeys of renowned adventurers such as Drake and Frobisher with descriptions by other explorers and traders to reveal a nation beginning to dominate the seas, Hakluyt's great work was originally intended principally to assist navigation and trade. It also presents one of the first and greatest modern portraits of the globe.