Hakluyt,Richard

Hakluyt,Richard
Hak·luyt (hăkʹlo͞ot'), Richard. 1552?-1616.
English geographer who published collected accounts of English exploratory voyages in Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589).

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  • HAKLUYT, RICHARD —    English author; was educated at Oxford, and became chaplain to the English embassy in Paris; wrote on historical subjects; his principal work, published in 1589, Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation by Land and …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • Hakluyt, Richard —  (c. 1553–1616) English geographer; pronounced [hak loot] …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

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  • Richard Hakluyt — Hakluyt sur un vitrail du parement ouest du transept sud de la cathédrale de Bristol (1905) …   Wikipédia en Français

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  • HAKLUYT (R.) — HAKLUYT RICHARD (1553 1616) Élevé à Oxford, entré dans les ordres, archidoyen de Westminster en 1603, Richard Hakluyt est surtout connu comme le héraut enthousiaste de l’évangile du «grand large» au temps d’Élisabeth. Avide de connaissances… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Richard Hakluyt — Infobox Writer name = Richard Hakluyt imagesize = caption = Hakluyt depicted in stained glass in the West Window of the South Transept of Bristol Cathedral – Charles Eamer Kempe, c. 1905. pseudonym = birthdate = c. 1552 or 1553 birthplace =… …   Wikipedia

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