Voyager's Tales (Illustrated)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (952 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B015JG2MJ6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 428 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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English translator, collector, editor and a geographer, Richard Hakluyt is best known for adventure narratives. His major works based on this detailed study include Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582), A Notable Historie Containing foure Voyages Made by Certayne French Captaynes into Florida (1587), and the translation of Virginia Richly Valued by the Description of Florida her Next Neig
. About the Author English translator, collector, editor and a geographer, Richard Hakluyt is best known for adventure narratives. Hakluyt carried out extensive research on voyages and travels. He delivered his first lecture on geography at Oxford University. His major works based on this detailed study include Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582), A Notable Historie Containing foure Voyages Made by Certayne French Captaynes into Florida (1587), and the translation of Virginia Richly Valued by the Description of Florida her Next Neighbour (1609)
As a student at Christ Church, Oxford, all his leisure was spent on the collection and reading of accounts of voyage and adventure. in 1574, as M. He graduated as B. A. Richard Hakluyt, born about five years before the accession of Queen Elizabeth, was a boy at Westminster School, when visits to a cousin in the Middle Temple, also a Richard Hakluyt, first planted in him an enthusiasm for the study of adventure towards a wider use and knowledge of the globe we live upon. Richard Hakluyt, notwithstanding the Dutch look of his name, was of a good British stock, from Wales or the Welsh borders. At the beginning of the fourteenth century an ancestor of his, Hugo Hakelute, sat in Parliament as member for Leominster. A. in 1577, and lectured publicly upon geography, showing "both the old imperfectly composed, and the new lately reformed maps, globes, spheres, and other instruments of this art."
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