Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent
Collected and Published by Richard Hakluyt

Accounts of exploration in the New World and the Caribbean originally published by Richard Hakluyt in 1582.

Richard Hakluyt (Author), John Winter Jones (Edited by)

9781108008044, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 March 2010

312 pages, 1 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.4 kg

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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.

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.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]