Hakluyt

[ hak-lit ]

/ ˈhæk lɪt /

Richard,1552?–1616, English geographer and editor of explorers' narratives.

Example sentences from the Web for hakluyt

The reprint will contain the whole of Hakluyt, with the addition of several scarce voyages and travels.

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness |Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Hakluyt must then have misunderstood it to mean that they were taken on the voyage of 1498.

In Northern Mists (Volume 2 of 2) |Fridtjof Nansen
It appears from the introduction to Hakluyt's work that the narrative was revised by Burrough himself.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II |A.E. Nordenskieold
The narrative of these adventurers as given in Hakluyt's Voyages is extremely picturesque.

The History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763 |Reginald W. Jeffery

(Bohn's), is the following, purporting to be from Hakluyt, vol.

Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 |Various

Hakluyt

/ (ˈhækluːt) /

Richard. ?1552–1616, English geographer, who compiled The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589)