Hakluyt

Richard. ?1552--1616, English geographer, who compiled The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589)

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For instance, in his letter of 3 September 1585 to Richard Hakluyt, Ralph Lane, who, together with Sir Richard "Greeneuill" [Grenville] had been commissioned by Raleigh to set up the first colony in Virginia, described the land in extremely exotic terms:

Land of Plenty and Freedom: The Changing Vision of America in the Early Colonial Period

The way in which Woolf repeatedly engages with Hakluyt's works as a young reader and as an author suggests that she finds productive ambivalence in them.

H.M.S. Orlando: The Metamorphosing, Imperial Vessel

Another travelling text, which relied on translation, was also a possible source for Shakespeare's Othello, written by Richard Hakluyt's friend John Pory, who translated the English edition published in London in 1600, A Geographical Historie of Africa written in Arabicke and Italian by John Leo a More ..., a translation of a text published in 1556 by Hasan Ibn Muhammad Al-Wazzan Al-Fasi, known in the West as Leo Africanus.

The Local and the Global: Poetry, Philosophy and History

Hakluyt was an Elizabethan subject and, consequently, he cannot but blame Columbus' deceitfulness, instead of Henry VII's inaction, for what, at the time, was considered a catastrophic historical failure.

FASHIONING IDENTITIES AND BUILDING AN EMPIRE: THOMAS GAGE'S THE ENGLISH-AMERICAN (1648) AND ENGLISH PURITAN PROTO-COLONIALISM

He begins by unpacking English patriotism and the myth of English freedom, using a diverse range of sources from Chaucer, Hakluyt, and antiquarians like Lambarde (21-33).

Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Turner of Richard Hakluyt, well known for his Principal Navigations.

Allison K. Deutermann and Andras Kisery, eds.: Formal Matters: Reading the Materials of English Renaissance Literature

Schleck argued in part that the reliance of contemporary critics to draw primarily from Hakluyt's collection of travel narratives potentially reinscribes a narrative colonialism.

Colleen M. Franklin, ed. The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James: A Critical Edition

The brief entry on him in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that his dates of birth and death are unknown, that he was probably from Devonshire (Robarts claims an association with Drake on this basis in his pamphlets), that, on the evidence of his texts, he served in some capacity as a seaman, and that he is likely to be other than the Henry Roberts who went as ambassador to Morocco in 1585, the source of a report included in Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations.

Remembering Sir Francis Drake: travel, commemoration and national identity in the work of Henry Robarts

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