Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others [Paperback]

A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 19057 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.This seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 20-volume 19057 edition) follows Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations in recording voyages of exploration. 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.This seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 20-volume 19057 edition) follows Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations in recording voyages of exploration. 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.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 19035, was followed in 1625 by Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes, now reissued in a 20-volume edition published in 19057. When first published in four folio volumes, the work was the largest ever printed in England. An Anglican priest, Samuel Purchas (15771626) 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. Reporl"