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)

9781108079716, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2014

640 pages, 2 b/w illus. 7 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.93 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 8 contains narratives of travel through Syria and Persia, including the story of Benjamin of Tudela, who visited Jewish communities in Europe and the Middle East.

Part VIII (cont.): 6. The churches peregrination by this H. Land way
7. Monuments of antiquitie
8. A relation of a journey begun by Master George Sandys
9. Part of a letter of Master William Biddulph from Aleppo
10. The journey of Edward Barton Esquire
11. The travels and adventures of Captaine John Smith
12. The death of Sultan Osman
13. Mount Sinai, Oreb. and the adjoyning parts of Arabia
Part IX: 1. A briefe compendium of the historie of Sir Anthonie Sherleys travels into Persia
2. Sir Anthonie Sherley his voyage over the Caspian Sea and thorow Russia
3. Two voyages of Master John Newberie into the Holy Land
4. Observation of Master John Cartwright in his voyage from Aleppo to Hispaan
5. The peregrination of Benjamin, a Jew.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]