1. hakluyt, richard English author; was educated at Oxford, and became chaplain to the Englishembassy in Paris; wrote on historical subjects; his principal work, published in 1589, "Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the EnglishNation by Land and Sea," a work which, detailing as it does the greatdeeds of Englishmen, particularly on the sea, has borne very considerable fruit in Englishlife and literature since (1552-1616).
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