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Hakluyt

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

Hakluyt [ˈhækluːt]
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(Biographies / Hakluyt, Richard (?1552-1616) M, English, GEOGRAPHY: geographer) Richard. ?1552-1616, English geographer, who compiled The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589)


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Mas importante que el libro de Eden resulto la publicacion en 1589 de la recopilacion de Richard Hakluyt Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English nation, obra que, si bien estaba dedicada a la contribucion de los exploradores ingleses en la expansion de los horizontes geograficos y politicos del pais, incluia tambien menciones a los viajes de Colon y a los de Magallanes, entre otros, y a las tierras descubiertas por estos (Rossi 94).
 
 
 
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