Voyages and Discoveries by Richard Hakluyt

Voyages and Discoveries by Richard Hakluyt

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.

Edited, abridged and introduced by Jack Beeching

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ISBN 13	9780140430738
ISBN 10	0140430733
Titel	Voyages and Discoveries
Autor	Richard Hakluyt
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1982-10-28
Seitenanzahl	448
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.