Hakluyt's promise : an Elizabethan's obsession for an English America

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Label

Hakluyt's promise : an Elizabethan's obsession for an English America

Title remainder

an Elizabethan's obsession for an English America

Statement of responsibility

Peter C. Mancall

Creator

• Mancall, Peter C

Subject

• Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
• Electronic books
• Clergy -- England -- Biography
• Discoveries in geography -- English
• North America -- Discovery and exploration | English -- Early works to 1800
• Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616
• Travel writers -- England -- Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Early works to 1800
• Electronic books

Language

• eng
• eng

Summary

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 text describes in detail the life and times of Hakluyt, a trained minister who became an editor of travel accounts

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

MiAaPQ

Dewey number

910.92

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

G69.H2

LC item number

M27 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography