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...HAKLUYT'S VOYAGES, edited by Irwin Blacker. The highlights of Richard Hakluyt's amazing compendium of travel diaries, letters and essays, all of which eloquently chronicle Elizabethan England's rise from seagirt obscurity to world power...
...HAKLUYT'S VOYAGES, edited by Irwin Blacker. The highlights of Richard Hak-luyt's amazing compendium of travel diaries, letters and essays, which eloquently chronicle Elizabethan England's rise from seagirt obscurity to world power...
Seagoing Brothels. Elizabeth rewarded him with knighthood, but the King of Spain was less appreciative. He resolved that "England shal smoake," and in 1588 the Duke of Medina Sidonia sailed north with the mightiest naval armament of the age. According to Hakluyt, there were 30,000 men in 134 ships, among them several seagoing brothels and 64 enormous floating forts. The British fleet made a far less impressive array: 12,000 men in 100 ships, and beside the Spanish galleons the British men of war looked like overdecorated dinghies. But the British ships had the advantage of "dexteritie," and most...
Last Stand. The defeat of the Armada is the historic climax of Hakluyt's saga; but the literary climax is attained in Sir Walter Raleigh's recreation of the bloodiest sea battle of the age: the last stand of the Revenge...
...Geography Department was laid aside by the Dean for lack of sufficient funds. But in England, geography, perhaps because of its long association with maritime and colonial enterprises, has always occupied a respected place in scholarship. In addition to geography chairs in the major universities, there is the Hakluyt Society, which publishes the narratives of famous explorers and adventurers. Raleigh A. Skelton has been secretary of the Society for sixteen years; and to support his infectious belief in the romance of maps he might quote the Society motto...