Richard Hakluyt, English priest and author (born 1552)

Richard Hakluyt

English author, editor and translator (1553–1616)

Richard Hakluyt was an English writer. He is known for promoting the English colonization of North America through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation…