HAKLUYT, Richard.

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The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. A finely bound set, reproducing the text of the second and greatly expanded edition of Hakluyt's famous collection of exploration and travel narratives, which was published in three volumes between 1598 and 1600."Hakluyt was a vigorous propagandist and empire-builder; his purpose was to further British maritime enterprise and to intensify British expansion overseas" (PMM). Although he never ventured further afield than France, he had dealings with many of the explorers, navigators, and cartographers of his day. His project enjoyed the support of Sir Francis Walsingham, who licensed the first edition and was its dedicatee. The first two parts deal with English adventurers in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Europe. The third part is devoted to America and provides detailed (and in some cases the first) accounts of voyages in search of a North West Passage, settlements in the Carolinas, Virginia, and at Roanoke, and exploits in Caribbean waters. It includes the narratives of Cabot, Hawkins, Gilbert, Frobisher, Lane, Hariot, and others.

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