The Hakluyt Handbook

The Hakluyt Handbook provides a reference guide to the works of the Reverend Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) and a critical evaluation of his achievements as a collector, editor, translator and author of travel literature. In Volume I, part one consists of a series of essays by specialists in the various field with which Hakluyt was concerned and attempts to evaluate his significance for historians, geographers and students of literature and society; part two comprises an analysis of the quality of his selections of material for his greatest collection The Principal Navigations...of the English Nation in a series of regional studies; and part three is a chronology of his life and writings expanded from that in G.B. Parks, Richard Hakluyt and the English Voyagers (1928). Parts four and five (in Volume II) analyse the contents and sources of Hakluyt's three major works Divers Voyages (1582), Principall Navigations (1589) and Principal Navigations (1598-1600), and provide detailed bibliographical material on the works with which Hakluyt was associated. A critical bibliography of secondary works and an analytical list of the publications of the Hakluyt Society, 1846-1973, complete the work. An index of books and articles referred to in the volumes is included. The Hakluyt Handbook has been under consideration by the Hakluyt Society for more than a decade and owes much to the late R.A. Skelton (1906-70). The editor Professor D.B. Quinn has had the generous co-operation of more than twenty members of the Society in its compilation. It is hoped that the volumes will not only have value to members of the Society and to many students of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, but that they will stimulate further research on Richard Hakluyt and a further refinement of our knowledge of Hakluyt's sources and bibliography. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 145) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first publis

A reference guide to the works of the Reverend Richard Hakluyt and a critical evaluation of his achievements.

Volume I: Essays by various hands, (a) on aspects of Hakluyt's achievement, including essays on Hakluyt's maps (by R.A. Skelton), on the conveyance of material from Hakluyt to Purchas (by C.R. Steele), and on Hakluyt's reputation (by D.B. Quinn); (b) on Hakluyt's use of material, by twelve world regions. Also a Hakluyt chronology (by D.B. and A.M. Quinn). Volume II: A listing of the contents of Hakluyt's works, a primary Hakluyt bibliography, an essay discussing secondary works on Hakluyt (by L.E. Pennington), a listing of all Hakluyt Society works to date (by E.L.C. Mullins), and indexes (by A.M. Quinn). The main pagination of this and volume I is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1974.

"Hakluyt's Promise demonstrates [Hakluyt's] prominent role in the establishment of English America as well as his interests in English opportunities in the East Indies. The volume presents nearly fifty illustrations - many unpublished since the sixteenth century - and offers a fresh view of Hakluyt's milieu and the central concerns of the Elizabethan age"--Jacket.

Annotation Essays by various hands, (a) on aspects of Hakluyt's achievement, including essays on Hakluyt's maps (by R.A. Skelton), on the conveyance of material from Hakluyt to Purchas (by C.R. Steele), and on Hakluyt's reputation (by D.B. Quinn); (b) on Hakluyt's use of material, by twelve world regions. Also a Hakluyt chronology (by D.B. and A.M. Quinn). The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 145) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1974.

In this guide various approaches to Hakluyt's books are suggested under a number of interrelated headings - his patronage and connections; Italian and French influences; his use of illustration and his presentation of texts; his intentions; and his impact and readership. It is hoped that it will aid a broad appreciation of Hakluyt's work and the nature of his achievement, notably that his part in the publication of over twenty-five travel books marks a contribution to travel literature far beyond the Principal navigations . . . and discoveries of the English nation for which he is chiefly famous. Extensive notes are provided to indicate further primary and secondary references and, finally, there is a bibliography of the books by or otherwise associated with Hakluyt published between 1580 and 1625.