The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe [electronic resource]
Richard Hakluyt2015
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'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.
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Richard Hakluyt (c 1552-1616). Hakluyt's Voyages and Discoveries is available in
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Author:
Richard Hakluyt, Author
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2015
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9780141398525
Language:
English
BRN:
435126
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