The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation

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The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation

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Also known as: “The principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English nation”

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This was The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, which, by its scholarship and comprehensiveness, transcended all geographical literature to date; the first edition, in one volume, appeared in 1589. About this time he married Duglesse Cavendish, a relative of Thomas Cavendish, the circumnavigator,…
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In English literature: Prose styles, 1550–1600
…casual success is Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589; expanded 1598–1600), a massive collection of travelers’ tales, of which some are highly accomplished narratives. William Harrison’s gossipy, entertaining Description of England (1577), Philip Stubbes’s excitable and humane social critique The Anatomy of Abuses (1583),…
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