Author:Samuel Purchas

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Samuel Purchas (1570s–1626)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. English travel writer, probably born 1575 to 1577

Works

• Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places (1613)
• Purchas, his Pilgrim. Microcosmus, or the histories 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 vols.), (1625)

Works about Purchas

• “Purchas, Samuel,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• “Purchas, Samuel” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.

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