Abstract

The historical injustices of English colonization in America need not blind us to the curious interest aroused by the New World. A streak of fascination for new commodities and ways of life competed with the lure of gold, the drive for fame and adventure, and competition with Spain. Seventeenth-century prose writers like Bacon, Burton, and Browne kept alive the sparks that glimmer in the accounts collected by Richard Hakluyt in his Principall Navigations, a key resource for our historical understanding of the period.

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