BIOGRAPHY

Foster, William. “Samuel Purchas.” In Richard Hakluyt & His Successors, edited by Edward Lynam, pp. 49-61. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1946.

Surveys the life and career of Purchas.

CRITICISM

Echeruo, Michael J. C. “Robinson Crusoe, Purchas His Pilgrimes and the ‘Novel’.” English Studies in Africa 10, No. 2 (September 1967): 167-77.

Considers similarities between Defoe's and Purchas's writings and discusses the influence the works of Purchas had on Defoe, especially on the writing of Robinson Crusoe.

Jennings, Francis. “Savage Form for Peasant Function.” In Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism and the Cant of Conquest, pp. 59-84. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

Discusses Purchas's rationalization of colonization by conquest in his writings.

Rogers, Ben J. “Melville, Purchas, and some names for Whale in Moby Dick.” American Speech 72, No. 3 (Fall 1997): 332-36.

Examines the possible impact Purchas and his works may have had on Herman Melville and his writings, including his most famous work.

Additional coverage of Purchas's life and career is contained in the following source published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 151.