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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 8 contains narratives of travel through Syria and Persia, including the story of Benjamin of Tudela, who visited Jewish communities in Europe and the Middle East.

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Author:   Samuel Purchas
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   Volume 8
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.930kg
ISBN:  

9781108079716

ISBN 10:   1108079717
Pages:   640
Publication Date:   06 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part VIII (cont.): 6. The churches peregrination by this H. Land way; 7. Monuments of antiquitie; 8. A relation of a journey begun by Master George Sandys; 9. Part of a letter of Master William Biddulph from Aleppo; 10. The journey of Edward Barton Esquire; 11. The travels and adventures of Captaine John Smith; 12. The death of Sultan Osman; 13. Mount Sinai, Oreb. and the adjoyning parts of Arabia; Part IX: 1. A briefe compendium of the historie of Sir Anthonie Sherleys travels into Persia; 2. Sir Anthonie Sherley his voyage over the Caspian Sea and thorow Russia; 3. Two voyages of Master John Newberie into the Holy Land; 4. Observation of Master John Cartwright in his voyage from Aleppo to Hispaan; 5. The peregrination of Benjamin, a Jew.

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