Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 548 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781316034958
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Maritime exploration
Content:
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 2 covers the first circumnavigations, including those of Magellan and the Dutchmen Noort and Spilbergen, and the founding of the East India Company
Note:
Originally published in Glasgow by James MacLehose and Sons in 1905
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108079655
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108079655
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316034958
