Purchas Handbook (eBook, PDF)

Studies of the Life, Times and Writings of Samuel Purchas, 1577-1626, Volume I
Redaktion: Pennington, L E

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Purchas Handbook follows the model of the Society's earlier Hakluyt Handbook in providing a reference guide to the works of the Reverend Samuel Purchas (1577-1626) and a critical evaluation of his achievements as collector, editor, and author of trave

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781409432623
• Artikelnr.: 42881178

Autorenporträt

L.E. Pennington

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Concordance between Purchas' s Pilgrimes (4 vols
1625) and Pilgrimes (20 vols
1905-07); Part 1 Purchas Through Four Centuries: Samuel Purchas: his reputation and the uses of his works
L.E. Pennington. Part 2 Some Purchas Perspectives: Purchas as editor
Carol Urness; Purchas's maps
Helen Wallis; The native peoples
W.E. Washburn. Part 3 Purchas's Use of the Materials Available to Him: Purchas as theological geographer
H.C. Porter; The circumnavigations
D.B. Quinn; Africa (other than the Mediterranean and Red Sea lands) and the Atlantic islands
P.E.H. Hair; North and North-East Africa and the Near and Middle East
C.F. Beckingham; India and the areas adjacent
Michael Strachan; Southeast Asia
S. Arasaratnam; The Far East
E. J. van Kley and T.N. Foss; Russia and Central Asia
C.H. Baron; The northern passage
T.E. Armstrong; Latin America
C.R. Steele; North America
D.B. Quinn. Part 4 From 1577 to 1657: A Purchas chronology
D.R. Ransome.