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]。
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).
Hitchcock, Richard. Samuel Purchas as Editor: A Case Study: Anthony Knyvett's Journal. The Modern Language Review. 2004, 99 (2): 301–312. JSTOR 3738747. doi:10.2307/3738747.