Samuel Purchas

Hakluytus Posthumus Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes

Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905-7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 580
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9781108079648
• ISBN-10: 1108079644
• Artikelnr.: 41611302

Inhaltsangabe

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.