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Author:   Samuel Purchas
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   Volume 1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.840kg
ISBN:  

9781108079648

ISBN 10:   1108079644
Pages:   580
Publication Date:   06 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Publisher's note; The will of the Rev. Samuel Purchas, B.D.; The epistle dedicatorie; To the reader; A note touching the Dutch; Part I: 1. A large treatise of King Salomon's navie; 2. Man's life a pilgrimage; 3. Of divers other principall voyages; 4. Fabulous antiquities; 5. A brief recital of the famous expeditions; 6. The travels of the antient philosophers and learned men; 7. Phoenician voyages; 8. Iambulus his navigation to Arabia; 9. Great Alexander's life; 10. The travels of Musaeus, Thebaeus and others; 11. A brief and generall consideration of Europe; 12. Enquiries of languages; 13. Master Brerewood's enquiries of the religions professed in the world; 14. Relations of divers travellers, touching the diversities of Christian rites and tenents; 15. Collections out of Peter Stroza; 16. A brief survey of the ecclesiasticall politie ancient and moderne; 17. A discourse of the diversitie of letters used by divers nations of the world.

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