Samuel Purchas
Details
Birth Date 1577
Death Date 1626
Personal Name Purchas, Samuel
Alternate Names
- Samuel Purchas the Elder
- Purchas, Samuel
English Anglican cleric who published several volumes of reports by travellers to foreign countries.
Writings according to Wikipedia:
Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages Discouered, from the Creation unto This Present (1st edition, 1613; 2nd edition, 1614).
Purchas, his Pilgrim. Microcosmus, or the historie of Man. Relating the wonders of his Generation, vanities in his Degeneration, Necessity of his Regeneration (1619).
Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells, by Englishmen and others (4 volumes, 1625). Reprinted in 1905–1907 in 20 volumes.