Author: Samuel Purchas
Alternate names: Samuel Purchas the Elder; Purchas, Samuel
Born: 1577
Died: 1626
Bio: English Anglican cleric who published several volumes of reports by travellers to foreign countries.

Writings according to Wikipedia:

 - Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages Discouered, from the Creation unto This Present (1st  edition, 1613; 2nd edition, 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 volumes, 1625). Reprinted in 1905–1907 in 20 volumes.