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Author Mancall, Peter C.

Title Hakluyt's promise [electronic resource] : an Elizabethan's obsession for an English America / Peter C. Mancall.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 378 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-364) and index.
Contents London, c.1592: Woodson's tusk. -- London, 1568: The visit. -- Oxford, c.1571: Rumors. -- Oxford, 1577: The ice. -- Oxford, c.1580: Passages. -- Paris, 1583: The devouring sea. -- Paris and London, 1584 to 1589: Cabinets and curiosities. -- London, 1590 to 1600: Truth and lies. -- London, 1609: Virginia richly valued. -- Wetheringsett and London, 1614: The Malayan dialogues.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.
Travel writers -- England -- Biography.
Clergy -- England -- Biography.
Discoveries in geography -- English.
Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.
North America -- Discovery and exploration -- English -- Early works to 1800.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0300110545 (clothbound : alk. paper)
9780300110548 (clothbound : alk. paper)

 
    
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