Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes
Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others

A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905–7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.

Samuel Purchas (Author)

9781108079648, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2014

580 pages, 12 b/w illus. 7 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.84 kg

Richard Hakluyt's 12-volume Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, originally published at the end of the sixteenth century, and reissued by the Cambridge Library Collection in the edition of 1903–5, was followed in 1625 by Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes, now reissued in a 20-volume edition published in 1905–7. When first published in four folio volumes, the work was the largest ever printed in England. An Anglican priest, Samuel Purchas (1577–1626) was a friend of Hakluyt, and based his great work in part on papers not published by Hakluyt before his death. As well as being a wide-ranging survey of world exploration, it is notable as an anti-Catholic polemic, and a justification of British settlement in North America. Volume 1 considers ancient exploration, beginning with the navy of King Solomon, and moving to the classical period, before discussing the world's religions.

Publisher's note
The will of the Rev. Samuel Purchas, B.D.
The epistle dedicatorie
To the reader
A note touching the Dutch
Part I: 1. A large treatise of King Salomon's navie
2. Man's life a pilgrimage
3. Of divers other principall voyages
4. Fabulous antiquities
5. A brief recital of the famous expeditions
6. The travels of the antient philosophers and learned men
7. Phoenician voyages
8. Iambulus his navigation to Arabia
9. Great Alexander's life
10. The travels of Musaeus, Thebaeus and others
11. A brief and generall consideration of Europe
12. Enquiries of languages
13. Master Brerewood's enquiries of the religions professed in the world
14. Relations of divers travellers, touching the diversities of Christian rites and tenents
15. Collections out of Peter Stroza
16. A brief survey of the ecclesiasticall politie ancient and moderne
17. A discourse of the diversitie of letters used by divers nations of the world.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]