Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes : Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others Paperback / softback
by Samuel Purchas
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration series
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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 6 describes the relations between European and North African fleets in the Mediterranean, and goes on to consider the first European voyages down the west coast of Africa.
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- Pages:588 pages, 6 Plates, black and white; 2 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/11/2014
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- ISBN:9781108079693
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:588 pages, 6 Plates, black and white; 2 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/11/2014
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- ISBN:9781108079693
