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Lines Drawn across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt's 'Principal Navigations

Mary C. Fuller

Culture, humanities & social science

Lines Drawn across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt's 'Principal Navigations

By Mary C. Fuller, professor of literature

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.

From Summer 2023 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.