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Mary Fuller · McGill-Queen's University Press · 2023

Around 1600, English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt published a 2,000-page collection of travel narratives, royal letters, ships' logs, maps, and more from over 200 voyages. In "Lines Drawn across the Globe," Fuller traces the history of the book's compilation and gives order and meaning to its diverse contents. From Sierra Leone to Iceland, from Spanish narratives of New Mexico to French accounts of the Saint Lawrence and Portuguese accounts of China, Hakluyt's shaping of the book provides a conceptual map of the world's regions and of England's real and imagined relations to them.

Mary C. Fuller · McGill-Queen's University Press · 2023

Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honor his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe. Fuller traces the history of the book's compilation and gives order and meaning to its famously diverse contents: from Sierra Leone to Iceland, from Spanish narratives of New Mexico to French accounts of the Saint Lawrence and Portuguese accounts of China.