Hakluyt Society Books

Shipley · Post by **Shipley** » August 23rd, 2009, 6:40 pm

Having commenced my LibriVox recording career with a prodigious effort (all of 65 seconds in the Dialects and Accents Collection), I was recently building castles in the air dreaming of what I would eventually record solo when I thought of the works of Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), the collector of tales of exploration. Unfortunately, the amount of Latin in his books poses probably insuperable problems for my rusty Latin.

However, while idly web surfing around "Hakluyt" I came across the interesting collection of early books from the Hakluyt Society listed at

http://www.hakluyt.com/digital_books.htm

Since there seems (judging by recent rapid sign-ups for "Mutiny on the Bounty", "Scott's Last Journal" and similar works) to be a considerable sub-set of LibriVox enthusiasts keen on tales of exploration and affairs maritime, these Hakluyt Society books would appear worthy of serious consideration. They must surely be PD, having been published before 1909 and freely available on Google, and what could be better than Richard Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, de Soto, Frobisher and numerous others in their own words. On a quick scan of the catalog, none of them appear to be presently available in LibriVox.

BellonaTimes · Post by **BellonaTimes** » August 23rd, 2009, 6:54 pm

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/h#a1212

Several here to pick from.

Post by **annise** » August 25th, 2009, 5:16 am

Shipley wrote:Having commenced my LibriVox recording career with a prodigious effort (all of 65 seconds in the Dialects and Accents Collection), I was recently building castles in the air dreaming of what I would eventually record solo when I thought of the works of Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), the collector of tales of exploration. Unfortunately, the amount of Latin in his books poses probably insuperable problems for my rusty Latin.

However, while idly web surfing around "Hakluyt" I came across the interesting collection of early books from the Hakluyt Society listed at

http://www.hakluyt.com/digital_books.htm

Since there seems (judging by recent rapid sign-ups for "Mutiny on the Bounty", "Scott's Last Journal" and similar works) to be a considerable sub-set of LibriVox enthusiasts keen on tales of exploration and affairs maritime, these Hakluyt Society books would appear worthy of serious consideration. They must surely be PD, having been published before 1909 and freely available on Google, and what could be better than Richard Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, de Soto, Frobisher and numerous others in their own words. On a quick scan of the catalog, none of them appear to be presently available in LibriVox.

They look really interesting, I've added them to my investigate list but I would love to listen to them read by someone else

Anne

kmerline · Post by **kmerline** » August 26th, 2009, 11:08 am

I've added them to my resource list as well. thank you

gloriana · Post by **gloriana** » August 27th, 2009, 3:16 pm

This is a great idea! Not sure I would undertake any of them as a solo, but would love to contribute to a group project.

sawasawaya · Post by **sawasawaya** » February 17th, 2017, 4:48 pm

For those too daunted by the passages in Latin, there is Edwin M Bacon's 'The Boy's Hakluyt - English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery' (1908, 1909, 1910) on Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/boyshakluytengli00baco

Quoting the Preface: "Hakluyt's quaint language ought not to be a hard nut to crack for the American boy when such rich meat is within."