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 1 considers ancient exploration, beginning with the navy of King Solomon, and moving to the classical period, before discussing the world's religions.This seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 20-volume 19057 edition) follows Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations in recording voyages of exploration. Volume 1 considers ancient exploration, beginning with the navy of King Solomon, and moving to the classical period, before discussing the world's religions.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 1 considers ancient exploration, beginning with the navy of King Solomon, and moving to the classical period, before discussing the world's religions.Publisher's note; The will of the Rev. Samuel Purchas, B.D.; The epistle dedicatorie; To the reader; A note touching the Dutch; Part I: 1. A large treatise of King Salomon's navie; 2. Man's life a pilgrimage; 3. Of divers other principall voyages; 4. Fabulous antiquities; 5. A brief recital of the famous l¦