Collection Of The Early Voyages Travels And Discoveries Of The English Nation

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Voyages and Discoveries

Author : Richard Hakluyt
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141922003

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Voyages and Discoveries by Richard Hakluyt Pdf

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.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels (Vol. 1-18)

Author : Robert Kerr
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 7336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066056865

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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels (Vol. 1-18) by Robert Kerr Pdf

Prepare yourslef for discoveries and new adventures with this incredible book about the true origin of wanderlust. This edition forms a complete history of the earliest start and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the early 19th century. First part of the work covers voyages and travels of discovery in the middle ages; from the era of Alfred, King of England, in the ninth century to that of Don Henry of Portugal at the commencement of the fourteenth century. Second part deals with general voyages and travels chiefly of discovery; from the era of Don Henry, in 1412, to that of George III. in 1760. The rest of the work has some particular voyages and travels arranged in systematic order, Geographical and Chronological, and studies voyages during the era of George III conducted upon scientific principles, by which the Geography of the globe has been nearly perfected.