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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries ofthe English Nat

History

HAKLUYT, RICHARD

World

Penguin Classics

'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts...' Scholar, spy, diplomat and supreme propagandist for Elizabethan sea power, Richard Hakluyt's accounts of famed explorers mythologised a nation growing rapidly aware of the size and strangeness of the world - and determined to dominate it. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Richard Hakluyt (c 1552-1616). Hakluyt's Voyages and Discoveries is available in Penguin Classics.

The Little Black Classics Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Penguin Classic

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation: Made by Sea Or Over-Land to the Remote and Farthest Distant ... Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeeres

Biographies & Memoirs

Franklin Classics

History Of Maine

The Discovery and Conquest of Terra Florida by Don Ferdinando de Soto and six Hundred Spaniards, His

Wentworth Press

Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage (Large Print Edition)

Travel

Travel Writing

BiblioLife

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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage

The Discovery of Muscovy and Voyager's Tales

Russia

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Voyages to the Virginia Colonies (The Century Travellers)

Americas

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