Stories from Hakluyt, selected and edited by Richard Wilson . RICHARD HAKLUYT ANDHIS WORK. Richard Hakluyt was not an author but an editorwhose work was to collect, correct, and arrange the writingsof other men which, but for his scholarly research andpatient industry, would probably have been left inobscurity or lost. He was born, probably in London,about the year 1553, and came of an English familyconnected with Eyton or Yatton in Herefordshire. Hisname was originally pronounced and spelt Hacklewit,with variations, and Michael Drayton mentions him inone of his poems as industrious Hackluit,
Stories from Hakluyt, selected and edited by Richard Wilson . RICHARD HAKLUYT ANDHIS WORK. Richard Hakluyt was not an author but an editorwhose work was to collect, correct, and arrange the writingsof other men which, but for his scholarly research andpatient industry, would probably have been left inobscurity or lost. He was born, probably in London,about the year 1553, and came of an English familyconnected with Eyton or Yatton in Herefordshire. Hisname was originally pronounced and spelt Hacklewit,with variations, and Michael Drayton mentions him inone of his poems as industrious Hackluit, Whose reading shall inflameMen to seek fame. He was educated at Westminster School, and ChristChurch, Oxford, but before he went to the Universityhe had definitely fixed upon the work of his life. Oneday he visited his cousin, another Richard Hakluyt, ofthe Middle Temple, and received from him a kind ofgeography lesson suggested by a map of the world whichhappened to be lying on the table. The boy was deeplyimpressed, especially with the short account which hiscousin gave him of recent
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