Buch, Englisch, 676 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1084 g
Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others
Buch, Englisch, 676 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1084 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
ISBN: 978-1-108-07996-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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 11 focuses on journeys into central Asia by Marco Polo and the less well-known Franciscan missionary William of Rubruck, and also contains an Arabic life of Tamerlane.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte: Expeditionen & Entdeckungen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt
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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.
