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Accounts of naval voyages of discoery – with a lengthy inftroduction and each section with an introductioon by Richard David. Richard Hakluyt was an Elizabethan clergyman, linguist and scholarly geographer with a passion for England’s advancement through overseas trade and exploration. His collection of documents were published around 1600 and each narrator of these accounts tells his own story. This selection contains tales of some of the most perilous and extraordinary adventures undertaken to the America’s, The Orient, and the far North. First thus. Light fade to jacket spine otherwise VG in VG dustjacket