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Description of  Lines Drawn across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt s Principal Navigations (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas) (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, 90)

Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe. The resulting collection of travel narratives, royal letters, ships logs, maps, lists, and commentaries was published as Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Spanning two thousand pages and documenting more than two hundred voyages, Read more