The booklet of 112 pages with eight coloured illustrations includes three essays based on lectures given at the various events, the catalogue notes of the two exhibitions and the conference programme, as follows:
Hakluyt, Aristotle and Oxford
Anthony Payne
Instruments and Practical Mathematics in the Commonwealth of Richard Hakluyt
Jim Bennett
Richard Hakluyt: From Oxford to the Moon
William Poole
Richard Hakluyt and Geography in Oxford 1550–1650
An Exhibition at Christ Church
Hakluyt: The World in a Book
An Exhibition at the Bodleian
Richard Hakluyt and the Renaissance Discovery of the World
Conference Programme
Anthony Payne is a past Vice-President of the Hakluyt Society, and with Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt, organised the Society’s Richard Hakluyt quatercentenary events in 2016. He is currently working on a major bibliographical study of Hakluyt and has previously published an introductory survey, Richard Hakluyt: A Guide to His Books and to Those Associated with Him 1580–1625 (London: Quaritch, 2008).