Hakluyt's promise : an Elizabethan's obsession for an English America /
Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of Hakluyt, a trained minister who became an editor...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2007]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1nprqr |
Table of Contents:
- London, c.1592: Woodson's tusk.
- London, 1568: The visit.
- Oxford, c.1571: Rumors.
- Oxford, 1577: The ice.
- Oxford, c.1580: Passages.
- Paris, 1583: The devouring sea.
- Paris and London, 1584 to 1589: Cabinets and curiosities.
- London, 1590 to 1600: Truth and lies.
- London, 1609: Virginia richly valued.
- Wetheringsett and London, 1614: The Malayan dialogues.