Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent : Collected and Published by Richard Hakluyt (Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series)

Hakluyt, Richard/ Jones, John Winter (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（2010/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108008044
• DDC分類 917.3041

Full Description

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volume 7 (1849) is an edition of accounts of exploration in the New World and in the Caribbean islands originally published by Richard Hakluyt in 1582. Hakluyt himself was a priest who acted as chaplain to Sir Robert Cecil, the Secretary of State to Elizabeth I and James I. He was a self-taught geographer and an enthusiastic supporter of colonial ventures in the New World, believing that England should not be left behind France and Spain in the rush to claim new territories.

Contents

Introduction; 1. A verie late and great probabilitie of a passage by the north-west part of America; 2. The booke made by the right worshipfull Master Robert Thorne; 3. The relation of John Verarzanus; 4. The true and last discovery of Florida; 5. Notes in writing; 6. Notes framed by a gentleman; 7. The names of certaine commodities; 8. Appendix.