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Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America
Hakluyt's Promise An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America
Author: Peter C. Mancall
Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of Hakluyt, a trained minister who became an editor of travel accounts.  Hakluyt’s Promise...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300164220
ISBN-10: 030016422X
Publication Date: 4/6/2010
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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