Lines Drawn Across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyts Principal Navigations (Volume 90) (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas)

How England saw the world and itself in 1600. Around 1600, Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to English voyages beyond Europe’s boundaries. In a dazzling account of an editorial project seminal to England’s encounter with the world and the nation’s idea of itself, Fuller unlocks Hakluyt’s work for modern readers.

Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluytsought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of everydocument he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond theboundaries of Europe. The resulting collection of travelnarratives, royal letters, ships' logs, maps, lists, andcommentaries was published as Principal Navigations, Voyages,Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Spanning twothousand pages and documenting more than two hundred voyages,Principal Navigations is a window onto how the worldappeared to England in 1600. Lines Drawn across the Globeunlocks Richard Hakluyt's work for modern readers. Mary Fullertraces the history of the book's compilation and gives order andmeaning to its famously diverse contents. From Sierra Leone toIceland, from Spanish narratives of New Mexico to French accountsof the Saint Lawrence and Portuguese accounts of China, Hakluyt'sshaping of this many-authored book provides a conceptual map of theworld's regions and of England's real and imagined relations tothem: exchange, alliance, aggression, extraction, translation,imitation - always depending on the needs of the moment. At theheight of the British imperial project, PrincipalNavigations came to be seen and valued as a founding documentof English national identity. It remains a crucial piece ofevidence on the history of empire, the nation, and the world. Yetafter a century and a half of modern scholarship, Hakluyt's bookneeds to be disentangled from the perspectives of the nineteenthcentury and read anew. Lines Drawn across the Globe worksacross the scales of Hakluyt's collection to deliver a dazzlingaccount of an editorial project that was fundamental to England'sencounter with the world - and the nation's idea of itself.

"Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe. The resulting collection of travel narratives, royal letters, ships’ logs, maps, lists, and commentaries was published as Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Spanning two thousand pages and documenting more than two hundred voyages, Principal Navigations is a window onto how the world appeared to England in 1600. Lines Drawn across the Globe unlocks Richard Hakluyt’s work for modern readers. Mary Fuller traces the history of the book’s compilation and gives order and meaning to its famously diverse contents. From Sierra Leone to Iceland, from Spanish narratives of New Mexico to French accounts of the Saint Lawrence and Portuguese accounts of China, Hakluyt’s shaping of this many-authored book provides a conceptual map of the world’s regions and of England’s real and imagined relations to them: exchange, alliance, aggression, extraction, translation, imitation--always depending on the needs of the moment. At the height of the British imperial project, Principal Navigations came to be seen and valued as a founding document of English national identity. It remains a crucial piece of evidence on the history of empire, the nation, and the world. Yet after a century and a half of modern scholarship, Hakluyt’s book needs to be disentangled from the perspectives of the nineteenth century and read anew. Lines Drawn across the Globe works across the scales of Hakluyt’s collection to deliver a dazzling account of an editorial project that was seminal to England’s encounter with the world--and the nation’s idea of itself."-- Provided by publisher Around 1600, the English geographer and cleric Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to its voyages and trade beyond the boundaries of Europe. The resulting collection of travel narratives, royal letters, ships' logs, maps, lists, and commentaries was published as Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation . Spanning two thousand pages and documenting more than two hundred voyages, Principal Navigations is a window onto how the world appeared to England in 1600. Lines Drawn across the Globe unlocks Richard Hakluyt's work for modern readers. Mary Fuller traces the history of the book's compilation and gives order and meaning to its famously diverse contents. From Sierra Leone to Iceland, from Spanish narratives of New Mexico to French accounts of the Saint Lawrence and Portuguese accounts of China, Hakluyt's shaping of this many-authored book provides a conceptual map of the world's regions and of England's real and imagined relations to them: exchange, alliance, aggression, extraction, translation, imitation – always depending on the needs of the moment. At the height of the British imperial project, Principal Navigations came to be seen and valued as a founding document of English national identity. It remains a crucial piece of evidence on the history of empire, the nation, and the world. Yet after a century and a half of modern scholarship, Hakluyt's book needs to be disentangled from the perspectives of the nineteenth century and read anew. Lines Drawn across the Globe works across the scales of Hakluyt's collection to deliver a dazzling account of an editorial project that was fundamental to England's encounter with the world – and the nation's idea of itself. Cover Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1 Opening the Work Part One North and Northeast 2 Remembering the North: Hakluyt’s Medieval Materials 3 Imagining the Arctic 4 Encounters with the North Part Two South and Southeast 5 The Levant and Beyond: Duration, Interruption, Repetition 6 West Africa and Beyond: Into the Tropics 7 Belligerent Materials: Sea Fights in the Atlantic Part Three Americas and the Pacific 8 The Relations of Strangers: Covering the Americas 9 Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage: Identities at High Latitudes 10 Famous Voyages: The Caribbean and the Pacific Afterword Appendices Appendix 1 Contents of Volume 2(ii), in Order of Appearance Appendix 2 West African Materials in Volume 3 (By Subheading) Appendix 3 Eden’s Narrative of John Lok’s Voyage to Guinea (1554), in Decades and in Principal Navigations Appendix 4 The Anglo-Spanish Sea War in Volumes 1 and 2 Appendix 5 Authorship and Editing in Hakluyt’s Materials on the Anglo-Spanish Sea War Appendix 6 Spanish Manuscripts in Principal Navigations, Volume 3 (Item Numbers from “C&S”) Appendix 7 Materials on Eastern Canada in Volume 3 Appendix 8 Principal Navigations Materials Relatedto Drake’s Activities at Sea Appendix 9 Principal Navigations Materials Related to Drake, by Voyage Appendix 10 Preachers and Voyages Tables, Figures, and Plates Bibliography Index