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Richard Hakluyt’s collection summarizes the principal navigations, voyages, traffic, and discoveries of the English nation made by sea or over land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth within the span of these centuries. It serves as a foundational record of England’s maritime and exploratory history, cataloguing geographic discoveries and the breadth of English exploration from early beginnings through contemporary times.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: Travel & Geography/Travel Writing
Authors: Richard Hakluyt
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