塞缪尔·珀切斯Samuel Purchas;约1577年—1626年)是一位英格兰圣公会神职人员,他出版了《珀切斯的朝圣》等多部旅行故事集。

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生平

珀切斯出生于埃塞克斯郡萨克斯泰德[1],父亲是位英格兰自耕农。他于1600年毕业于剑桥大学圣约翰学院[1][2],1604年前往埃塞克斯郡伊斯特伍德担任牧师。

伊斯特伍德距离滨海利2英里,当时是一个繁荣的港口。他本人没出过国[3],但记录了许多返航水手的故事。1614年,《珀切斯的朝圣》(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,并成为畅销书,1613年至1626年共出版4版[4]

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《珀切斯的朝圣》扉页,1625年

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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