Journey

Voyager’s Tales

by Richard Hakluyt

Richard Hakluyt spent his life gathering accounts of English voyages, and published them in his great collection of navigations. This short selection lets readers dip into those accounts without taking on the whole collection. Hakluyt was a clergyman who sailed on none of the voyages himself.

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Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 2 hr 50 min

Where to find it

The Map Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #3752. In the public domain in the United States.