Lines Drawn across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt’s “Principal Navigations” 9780228018414

How England saw the world and itself in 1600. Around 1600, Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a

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Lines Drawn across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt’s “Principal Navigations”
 9780228018414

Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Opening the Work
Part One North and Northeast
2 Remembering the North: Hakluyt’s Medieval Materials
3 Imagining the Arctic
4 Encounters with the North
Part Two South and Southeast
5 The Levant and Beyond: Duration, Interruption, Repetition
6 West Africa and Beyond: Into the Tropics
7 Belligerent Materials: Sea Fights in the Atlantic
Part Three Americas and the Pacific
8 The Relations of Strangers: Covering the Americas
9 Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage: Identities at High Latitudes
10 Famous Voyages: The Caribbean and the Pacific
Afterword
Appendices
Appendix 1 Contents of Volume 2(ii), in Order of Appearance
Appendix 2 West African Materials in Volume 3 (By Subheading)
Appendix 3 Eden’s Narrative of John Lok’s Voyage to Guinea (1554), in Decades and in Principal Navigations
Appendix 4 The Anglo-Spanish Sea War in Volumes 1 and 2
Appendix 5 Authorship and Editing in Hakluyt’s Materials on the Anglo-Spanish Sea War
Appendix 6 Spanish Manuscripts in Principal Navigations, Volume 3 (Item Numbers from “C&S”)
Appendix 7 Materials on Eastern Canada in Volume 3
Appendix 8 Principal Navigations Materials Relatedto Drake’s Activities at Sea
Appendix 9 Principal Navigations Materials Related to Drake, by Voyage
Appendix 10 Preachers and Voyages
Tables, Figures, and Plates
Bibliography
Index

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