Richard Haklyut (1552/3-1616) was a...
Richard Haklyut (1552/3-1616) was a force in English politics. He was a priest serving in
the English government. His life's interest was to chronicle and promote voyages of
discovery. He read, translated, charted, and published accounts of world exploration,
always emphasizing that England should explore and settle the new world.
He was urgent to get the English to the Americas, and he constantly argued that the
church should send missionaries to the natives. He viewed the efforts to find, investigate,