Hakluyt’s Voyages (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Hakluyt
- First Published: 1589
- Type of Work: Travel writing
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Voyages, Europe or Europeans, England or English people, Sixteenth century, Middle Ages, Exploration or explorers
Critical Evaluation:
Richard Hakluyt, regarded as the first professor of modern geography at Oxford, made a point of getting to know the “chiefest Captains at sea, the greatest merchants, and the best Mariners of our nation.” As a boy, he watched the ships come to port from distant journeys, and early lessons in geography fired him with an eagerness to know more. Studies at Oxford and a five-year period in Paris further set his resolution to collect the scattered records of English maritime discovery. The result of his interests was Hakluyt’s Voyages, an...
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