Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages,

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

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.

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Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780140430738
ReleaseDate 1972-07-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140430738

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780140430738
ReleaseDate	1972-07-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780140430738

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