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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 1 considers ancient exploration, beginning with the navy of King Solomon, and moving to the classical period, before discussing the world's religions.
Contents
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 expeditions; 6. The travels of the antient philosophers and learned men; 7. Phoenician voyages; 8. Iambulus his navigation to Arabia; 9. Great Alexander's life; 10. The travels of Musaeus, Thebaeus and others; 11. A brief and generall consideration of Europe; 12. Enquiries of languages; 13. Master Brerewood's enquiries of the religions professed in the world; 14. Relations of divers travellers, touching the diversities of Christian rites and tenents; 15. Collections out of Peter Stroza; 16. A brief survey of the ecclesiasticall politie ancient and moderne; 17. A discourse of the diversitie of letters used by divers nations of the world.
