Contents: Volume I: Concordance between Purchas' s Pilgrimes (4 vols, 1625) and Pilgrimes (20 vols, 1905-07); Part 1 Purchas Through Four Centuries: Samuel Purchas: his reputation and the uses of his works, L.E. Pennington. Part 2 Some Purchas Perspectives: Purchas as editor, Carol Urness; Purchas's maps, Helen Wallis; The native peoples, W.E. Washburn. Part 3 Purchas's Use of the Materials Available to Him: Purchas as theological geographer, H.C. Porter; The circumnavigations, D.B. Quinn; Africa (other than the Mediterranean and Red Sea lands) and the Atlantic islands, P.E.H. Hair; North and North-East Africa and the Near and Middle East, C.F. Beckingham; India and the areas adjacent, Michael Strachan; Southeast Asia, S. Arasaratnam; The Far East, E. J. van Kley and T.N. Foss; Russia and Central Asia, C.H. Baron; The northern passage, T.E. Armstrong; Latin America, C.R. Steele; North America, D.B. Quinn. Part 4 From 1577 to 1657: A Purchas chronology, D.R. Ransome. Volume II: Part 5 Contents, Sources and Bibliographies: Contents and sources of Purchas his Pilgrimes, John Parker; The primary Purchas bibliography, Pamela Neville-Sington; A secondary Purchas bibliography, L.E and G.Z. Pennington. Indexes, L.E. and G.Z. Pennington.
