Hakluyt, Richard
Hakluyt, Richard( 1552?–1616),British geographer and compiler of narratives of exploration. Among his valuable publications dealing with America, preserving original accounts that would otherwise have been lost, are Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582); A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages Made by Certayne French Captaynes into Florida (1587), including the narrative of Laudonnière; Virginia Richly Valued (1609), including the account of De Soto's discoveries; and his greatest work, The Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589: 3 vols., enlarged, 1598–1600). The work of Hakluyt was continued by Samuel Purchas, who collected his unpublished papers in Hakluytus Posthumus (4 vols., 1625).
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