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Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes - Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others (Paperback)
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Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes - Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration, Volume 8
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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 8 contains narratives of travel through Syria
and Persia, including the story of Benjamin of Tudela, who visited
Jewish communities in Europe and the Middle East.
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