Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his Pilgrimes : Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others (Paperback)

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.