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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 678
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1084g
• ISBN-13: 9781108079969
• ISBN-10: 1108079962
• Artikelnr.: 41611725

Inhaltsangabe

Epistle dedicatory
Part I: 1. The journal of Friar William de Rubruquis
2. Tartarian and northerne regions by Roger Bacon
3. Relations touching the Tartars
4. The first book of Marco Polo
5. The history of Anthonie the Armenian
6. Travels and memorials of Sir John Mandevile
7. The voyage of Nicolo di Conti to the Indies
8. Extracts of Alhacen his Arabike history of Tamerlan
9. Reports of Chaggi Memet in the countrey of the Great Can
10. A treatise of China by Gaspar da Cruz
11. The realtion of Galeotto Perara, prisoner in China
Part II: 1. The beginning of English discoveries towards the north, and north-east.