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)

9781108079655, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2014

578 pages, 2 b/w illus.
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 2 covers the first circumnavigations, including those of Magellan and the Dutchmen Noort and Spilbergen, and the founding of the East India Company.

Part II: 1. Of the improvement of navigation in later times
2. Of Ferdinandus Magellan
3. The second circum-navigation of the earth
4. The third circum-navigation of the earth
5. The voyage of Oliver Noort round the globe
6. The voyage of George Spilbergen
7. The sixth circum-navigation
Part III: 1. Of the first English voyage to the East Indies
2. A priviledge of fifteene yeeres granted by Her Majestie
3. The first voyage made to East India by Master James Lancaster
4. A discourse of Java
5. The second voyage set forth by the Companie
6. A journall of the third voyage to the East India.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]