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)

9781108079990, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2014

636 pages, 8 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.92 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 14 describes voyages to Greenland, Scandinavia and Russia (including a journey of two Cossacks to China), and begins an account of the West Indies.

Part IV: 1. A voyage set forth by Sir Thomas Smith to Cherry Island
2. A commission for discovery to the northward of Greeneland
3. A brief declaration of my voyage to Greeneland by Sir Thomas Smith
4. A voyage to Greeneland in 1612
5. A voyage to Greeneland in 1613
6. A voyage to Greeneland in 1614
7. Report of a voyage north, anno 1615
8. Divers other voyages to Greeneland
9. Changes in Russia
10. Contracts between the emperours majestie and the king's majestie of Sweden
11. A relation of two Russe Cossacks travails out of Siberia to Catay
12. The discovery of the river Ob
13. Discoveries made by Englishmen to the north-west
14. Voyage forth of Denmarke for the discovery of Greenland
15. The second voyage of Master James Hall
16. The voyage of Master John Knight
17. The fourth voyage of James Hall
18. Baffin's account of the north-west passage
19. The fifth voyage for the north-west passage
20. The probability of a passage to the westerne or south sea
Part V: 1. A description of the West Indies.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]