I was in a bookshop last week and came across a set of 12 volumes of bound books by Richard Hakluyt on Voyages of Discovery.
They were selling for $750 and though I was temped I found they were available to read free online.
Richard Hakluyt was an amazing individual and there is a whole society founded in his honour.
http://www.hakluyt.com/
I started reading one of the volumes online and came across a remarkable story about one John Fox.
Below is a link to a modern telling of his tale which is nowhere as near as dramatic as the telling in Hakluyt's Voyages.
/http://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/31084/john-fox-of-suffolk-became-a-galley-slave-on-turkish-pirate-ships/
Its a wonder it has not been made into a movie if a swashbuckling tale is your thing.
Here below is the online reading from the original link starting at page 9.
https://archive.org/stream/cihm_33127#page/n13/mode/2up
The marvels of the internet to be able to track down things you have never heard of.
They were selling for $750 and though I was temped I found they were available to read free online.
Richard Hakluyt was an amazing individual and there is a whole society founded in his honour.
http://www.hakluyt.com/
I started reading one of the volumes online and came across a remarkable story about one John Fox.
Below is a link to a modern telling of his tale which is nowhere as near as dramatic as the telling in Hakluyt's Voyages.
/http://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/31084/john-fox-of-suffolk-became-a-galley-slave-on-turkish-pirate-ships/
Its a wonder it has not been made into a movie if a swashbuckling tale is your thing.
Here below is the online reading from the original link starting at page 9.
https://archive.org/stream/cihm_33127#page/n13/mode/2up
The marvels of the internet to be able to track down things you have never heard of.
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