Excerpt from Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America: Select Narratives From the 'Principal Navigations' of Hakluyt No better and more representative pictures of thisnational outgoing could have been found than the relations here given, so vivid in style, so accurate in record, so photographic of the men and times to which they refer. And the oversea movement led by Drake and Hawkins, by F robisher and Gilbert, by Raleigh and Cavendish and Lancaster, is worth studying from the best sources we can find. For it becomes, ...
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Excerpt from Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America: Select Narratives From the 'Principal Navigations' of Hakluyt No better and more representative pictures of thisnational outgoing could have been found than the relations here given, so vivid in style, so accurate in record, so photographic of the men and times to which they refer. And the oversea movement led by Drake and Hawkins, by F robisher and Gilbert, by Raleigh and Cavendish and Lancaster, is worth studying from the best sources we can find. For it becomes, in the closing years of the Tudor age, one of the two or three chief lines of national progress. It is no longer a by path of our history it is necessary to the development of the English people: through it England achieves her position in the Modern World. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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