{"product_id":"lines-drawn-across-the-globe","title":"Lines Drawn Across The Globe","description":"\u003cp\u003eAround 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 \u003ci\u003ePrincipal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. Spanning two thousand pages and documenting more than two hundred voyages, \u003ci\u003ePrincipal Navigations\u003c\/i\u003e is a window onto how the world appeared to England in 1600. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLines Drawn across the Globe\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003eAt the height of the British imperial project, \u003ci\u003ePrincipal Navigations\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eLines Drawn across the Globe\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57306133102974,"sku":"NW9780228016762","price":41.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780228016762.jpg?v=1778519199","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/lines-drawn-across-the-globe","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}