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1552–1616 · English author, editor and translator (1553–1616)
Also known as: Ричард Хаклюйт, ريتشارد هاكلوت, リチャード・ハクルート, 理查德·哈克卢伊特, Хаклюйт, Ричард
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- The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nations (2006)
- A particuler discourse concerninge the greate necessitie and manifolde commodyties that are like to growe to this Realme of Englande by the Westerne discoueries lately attempted, written in the yere 1584, by Richarde Hackluyt of Oxforde known as Discourse of Western Planting (1993)
- Nematodes, mostly Australian and Fijian
- Stories from Hakluyt, selected and edited by Richard Wilson
- Voyages to the Virginia colonies (1986)