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)

9781108080019, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2014

610 pages, 4 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm, 0.88 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 16 includes accounts of the West Indies, Puerto Rico, Guiana, and Brazil, and of the discovery of the river Amazon.

Part VI: 1. Voyages undertaken by George, earl of Cumberland
2. Voyage to Saint John de Porto Rico
3. A large relation of Porto Rico voyage
4. Voyages to divers parts of America by Englishmen
5. Relation of Sir Francis's voyage around the world
6. Thomas Candish his discourse
7. Master Anthonie Knivet
8. Relations of Master Thomas Turner of Brasill
9. The taking of Saint Vincent of Puerto Bello
10. A voyage into the West Indies
11. The ile of Trinidad
12. Charles Leigh his voyage to Guiana
13. True relation of the traiterous massacre in Santa Lucia
14. Relation of master John Wilson, 1606
15. Part of a treatise by Master William Turner
16. Relation of a voyage to Guiana
17. The river of Marwin
18. Discoverie of the river of Amazons
Part VII: 1. A treatise of Brasill
2. The dutie of the king's majestie in Brasill
3. Extracts out of the historie of a Frenchman who lived in Brasill.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]