The Hakluyt Editorial Project

Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation (second edition, 1598–1600) is the most important collection of English travel writing ever published. The territories it describes cover every area of European activity and aspiration in the period, from the New World to Muscovy, the Levant, Persia, the East Indies and Africa. Published in three massive folio volumes (approx. 1.76 million words), the work was instrumental in promoting English expansion through colonial and trade ventures around the globe.

The critical edition of The Principal Navigations is under contract with Oxford University Press in 14 volumes, under the general editorship of Prof. Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Prof. Claire Jowitt (University of Southampton). The edition will make available Hakluyt’s text in a way that has not been possible before, opening up the era of early modern travel and exploration to a new generation of readers.

Grants and Funding Awards

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
IRCHSS Senior Research Project Fellowship
Higher Education Authority (Ireland)
Research Support Fund, National University of Ireland, Galway
The British Academy Small Research Grant (2009, 2011, 2015)
Nottingham Trent University
Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) Research Associateship (2010, 2014)
British Academy Research Development Award
The Clothworkers’ Company
Project Partners

The Hakluyt Society http://www.hakluyt.com
Moore Institute http://www.nuigalway.ie/mooreinstitute
National Maritime Museum http://www.rmg.co.uk

Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation (second edition, 1598–1600) is the most important collection of English travel writing ever published.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1598–1600)

The critical edition of The Principal Navigations is under contract with Oxford University Press in 14 volumes. It will provide an unparalleled resource for researchers and teachers working on early modern travel, trade and colonialism. The individual volumes will cover:

Vol 1. Medieval Voyages
Vol 2. Medieval Voyages and the English in Muscovy
Vol 3. Muscovy and Persian Travel
Vol 4. Russia, Iceland and Anglo-Spanish Relations
Vol 5. Medieval Travel and the Early Levant Trade
Vol 6. Levant Travels, South Asia, and Anglo-Ottoman Diplomacy
Vol 7. Travels to Africa and the Far East, and the Anglo-Spanish War
Vol 8. Maritime War with Spain, the Northwest Passage, and West Africa
Vol 9. The Northwest Passage, Travels to Newfoundland, and the Gulf of St Lawrence
Vol 10. Voyages to New France, Roanoke, and Florida
Vol 11. Voyages to New Mexico, California, and New Spain
Vol 12. West Indies Voyages
Vol 13. Travels to Guiana, Brazil, and the River Plate
Vol 14. The South Seas, Far East, and Spanish Trade and Navigation