Hakluytus Posthumus Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes

Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-108-07999-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 634 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1018 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration

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 14 describes voyages to Greenland, Scandinavia and Russia (including a journey of two Cossacks to China), and begins an account of the West Indies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Purchas, Samuel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte: Expeditionen & Entdeckungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part IV: 1. A voyage set forth by Sir Thomas Smith to Cherry Island; 2. A commission for discovery to the northward of Greeneland; 3. A brief declaration of my voyage to Greeneland by Sir Thomas Smith; 4. A voyage to Greeneland in 1612; 5. A voyage to Greeneland in 1613; 6. A voyage to Greeneland in 1614; 7. Report of a voyage north, anno 1615; 8. Divers other voyages to Greeneland; 9. Changes in Russia; 10. Contracts between the emperours majestie and the king's majestie of Sweden; 11. A relation of two Russe Cossacks travails out of Siberia to Catay; 12. The discovery of the river Ob; 13. Discoveries made by Englishmen to the north-west; 14. Voyage forth of Denmarke for the discovery of Greenland; 15. The second voyage of Master James Hall; 16. The voyage of Master John Knight; 17. The fourth voyage of James Hall; 18. Baffin's account of the north-west passage; 19. The fifth voyage for the north-west passage; 20. The probability of a passage to the westerne or south sea; Part V: 1. A description of the West Indies.