| Hakluytus Posthumus Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes 20 Volume Set: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Oth Contributor(s): Purchas, Samuel (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108079636 ISBN-13: 9781108079631 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $1098.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Literary Collections - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: 910.4 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration |
| Physical Information: 7.28" H x 13.94" W x 19.09" (44.10 lbs) 11890 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |