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Lines Drawn across the Globe

Mary Fuller

Culture, humanities & social science

Lines Drawn across the Globe

By Mary Fuller, professor of literature and chair of the faculty

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.

From Summer 2024 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News). Cover image via Google Books.