Samuel Purchas

In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa, to the Cape of Good Hope, and from thence to the Red Sea, the Abassine, Arabian, Persian, Indian, shoares, continents, and ilands. The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinae with others, and the Indian nauigations further prosecuted: their iust commerce, nobly vindicated against Turkish treacherie; victoriously defended against Portugall hostilitie; gloriously aduanced against Moorish and ethnike perfidie; hopefully recouering from Dutch malignitie; iustly maintayned against ignorant and malicious calumnie. The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world: continuing the English-Indian occurents, and contayning the English affaires with the Great Samorine, in the Persian and Arabian Gulfes, and in other places of the continent, and ilands of and beyond the Indies: the Portugall attempts, and Dutch disasters, diuers sea-fights with both; and many other remarkable relations. ...

Purchas his pilgrimes

A 20-volume seventeenth-century work (reissued in a 1905-7 edition) which follows Hakluyt in recording voyages of exploration.

Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes

Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others

Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes

Hakluytus posthumus

Jan Huygen Van Linschoten

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

First Series, Comprising Purchas's Pilgrimage, and the Travels of Van Linschoten (1864)

Early Travels in Indi

In Five Bookes

Purchas His Pilgrimes

Or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others

Hakluytus Posthumus

Hakluyt Society

Benjamin Woods ongelukkige reys na Oost-Indien, met drie schepen; anno 1596. Waar van niemand 't huys gekomen, maar allen vergaan, gesneuveld, en omgebragt zijn

Samuel Purchas

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