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Lines drawn across the globe : reading Richard Hakluyt's Principal navigations /

"Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe. The resulting collection of travel narratives, royal letters, ships' lo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fuller, Mary C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 90.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opening the Work
  • Remembering the North: Hakluyt's Medieval Materials
  • Imagining the Arctic
  • Encounters with the North
  • The Levant and Beyond: Duration, Interruption, Repetition
  • West Africa and Beyond: Into the Tropics
  • Belligerent Materials: Sea Fights in the Atlantic
  • The Relations of Strangers: Covering the Americas
  • Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage: Identities at High Latitudes
  • Famous Voyages: The Caribbean and the Pacific.