Richard Hakluyt's "The Principal Navigations" is a monumental Elizabethan prose collection documenting English voyages, travels, and discoveries. It served as a foundational text for understanding and promoting English exploration and colonial ambitions.
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Richard Hakluyt — The Principal Navigations in Geography and Exploration
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- Strabo — Geography (Geographica) (23)
- Marco Polo — The Travels of Marco Polo (1300)
- Ibn Battuta — Travels in Asia and Africa (1355)
- Christopher Columbus — Journal of the First Voyage (1492)
- Antonio Pigafetta — Magellan's Voyage Around the World (1525)
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca — Naufragios (1542)
- James Cook — The Journals of Captain Cook (1768)
- Alexander von Humboldt — Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions (1814)
- George Perkins Marsh — Man and Nature (1864)
- Richard Henry Major — The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator (1868)
- Ernest Shackleton — The Heart of the Antarctic (1909)
- Mark Twain — Life on the Mississippi (1883)