塞繆爾·珀切斯（Samuel Purchas；約1577年—1626年）是一位英格蘭聖公會神職人員，他出版了《珀切斯的朝聖》等多部旅行故事集。
生平
珀切斯出生於埃塞克斯郡薩克斯泰德[1]，父親是位英格蘭自耕農。他於1600年畢業於劍橋大學聖約翰學院[1][2]，1604年前往埃塞克斯郡伊斯特伍德擔任牧師。
伊斯特伍德距離濱海利2英里，當時是一個繁榮的港口。他本人沒出過國[3]，但記錄了許多返航水手的故事。1614年，《珀切斯的朝聖》（Purchas His Pilgrimage: or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places discovered, from the Creation unto this Present）出版，並成為暢銷書，1613年至1626年共出版4版[4]。
作品
- Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages, (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 vols.), (1625).
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