Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe (Hakluyt Society, Extra Series)

by Claire Jowitt (Author), Daniel Carey (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2012

  $145.46

  Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting English colonial and commercial expansion in the early modern period. This title presents a collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work.