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  • The Discovery of Muscovy

    Enriched edition.

    by Richard Hakluyt, Lance Thomas ...
    In "The Discovery of Muscovy," Richard Hakluyt presents a compelling narrative that chronicles the exploration and commercial potential of Russia in the late 16th century. Distinguished by his meticulous style, Hakluyt employs a blend of firsthand accounts, maps, and observations, weaving a rich tapestry of discovery and ambition. This work emerges within the zeitgeist of Elizabethan England, ... Read more

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  • Voyages In Search of the North-West Passage

    by Richard Hakluyt ...
    Voyages In Search of the North-West Passage by Richard Hakluyt.As preface to Richard Hakluyt’s records of the first endeavour of our bold Elizabethan mariners to find North-West Passage to the East, let me repeat here that old voyage of mine from No. 55 of “Household Words,” dated the 12th of April, 1851: The Phantom is fitted out for Arctic exploration, with instructions to find her way, by the ... Read more

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  • The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (Complete)

    by Richard Hakluyt ...
    I haue thought it very requisite for thy further instruction and direction in this historie (Good Reader) to acquaint thee brieflie with the Methode and order which I haue vsed in the whole course thereof: and by the way also to let thee vnderstand by whose friendly aide in this my trauell I haue bene furthered: acknowledging that ancient speach to be no lesse true then inenious, that the offence ... Read more

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  • Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage

    Enriched edition. Journeys through the Frozen North: Tales of Exploration and Encounters in the Pursuit of the Northwest Passage

    by Richard Hakluyt, Zachary Henson ...
    In "Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage," Richard Hakluyt meticulously chronicles the explorations undertaken by European navigators seeking a maritime route through the Arctic to Asia. The work is marked by Hakluyt's distinctive prose style, which combines rigorous empirical observation with a rich narrative flair, capturing the spirit of the Age of Discovery. The book not only catalogs ... Read more

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  • The Discovery of Muscovy

    by Richard Hakluyt ...
    "The Discovery of Muscovy" by Richard Hakluyt is a significant work that explores the early encounters between England and Russia. Hakluyt, an influential geographer and historian, compiles various accounts of voyages and explorations that aimed to establish trade routes and diplomatic relations with Muscovy. The book not only serves as a historical document but also reflects the curiosity and ... Read more

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  • Voyages and Discoveries

    by Richard Hakluyt ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation: Volume 11

    by Richard Hakluyt ...
    The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English Nation Volume 11 presents an extensive account of maritime exploration and expanding trade networks associated with English seafaring activity. The narrative gathers numerous descriptions of ocean journeys, commercial ventures, and geographic discoveries that reveal the growing ambition of a nation seeking new routes, ... Read more

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  • Voyager's Tales

    by Richard Hakluyt ...
    Among our merchants here in England, it is a common voyage to traffic to Spain; whereunto a ship called the Three Half Moons, manned with eight and thirty men, well fenced with munitions, the better to encounter their enemies withal, and having wind and tide, set from Portsmouth 1563, and bended her journey towards Seville, a city in Spain, intending there to traffic with them. And falling near ... Read more

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  • Voyager's Tales: From The Collections Of Richard Hakluyt

    by Richard Hakluyt ...
    Voyagers tales from the collections of Richard Hakluyt offers a wide-ranging collection of accounts that capture the intensity and wonder of early maritime exploration. The work gathers stories of travelers who ventured far beyond familiar shores, revealing encounters with distant cultures, unfamiliar landscapes, and the dangers that shaped their journeys. It opens with an introduction to the ... Read more

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  • Discovery of Muscovy

    by Richard Hakluyt ...
    The story of our first contact with Russia belongs to the days of Ivan the Terrible. The Russians are a Slavonic people, with Finnish elements to the North and Mongolian to the South, and old contact with the Swedes, from whom they are supposed to have got their name through the Finnish Ruotsi, a corruption, it is said, of the Swedish rothsmenn—rowers. Legends point also to a Scandinavian ... Read more

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  • Voyager's Tales

    by Richard Hakluyt ...
    "Voyager's Tales" by Richard Hakluyt is a compelling collection of narratives that chronicles the adventures of explorers and navigators during the Age of Discovery. Hakluyt, an English writer and geographer, meticulously compiled these accounts to provide insights into the diverse cultures, lands, and peoples encountered by European explorers. The tales not only serve as thrilling accounts of ... Read more

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  • The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe

    by Richard Hakluyt ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts...'Scholar, spy, diplomat and supreme propagandist for Elizabethan sea power, Richard Hakluyt's accounts of famed explorers mythologised a nation growing rapidly aware of the size and strangeness of the world - and determined to dominate it.Introducing Little Black ... Read more

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