Welcome to American Friends of the Hakluyt Society!

This website is the electronic home of the American Friends of the Hakluyt Society.

This group was founded to provide support to the London-based Hakluyt Society, which since 1846 has existed to publish and promote the history of English voyaging.

The American Friends also serves as an electronic hub for maritime studies, oceanic history, blue ecocritisicm, and cognate academic discourses.