Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe

by Claire Jowitt

Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. 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. He also translated major European travel texts, championed English settlement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138109363
• ISBN13: 9781138109360
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 404 Pages