' Their fruits be diverse & plentiful as nutmegs ginger long pepper lemons cucumbers cocos sago with divers other sorts' Scholar spy diplomat & supreme propagandist for Elizabethan sea power Richard Hakluyt's accounts of famed explorers mythologised a nation growing rapidly aware of the size & strangeness of the world
- & determined to dominate it Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Richard Hakluyt (c 1552-1616) Hakluyt's Voyages & Discoveries is available in Penguin Classics