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Hakluyt's Promise

Hakluyt's Promise An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780300110548
Publisher: Yale University Press
Imprint: Yale University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 910.92
DEWEY edition: 22
Number of pages: 378
Weight: 626g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 32mm