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Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630: An Anthology

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

19.12.2022

Abbildungen

22 Illustrations

Herausgeber

Matthew Dimmock + weitere

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

416

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,9/2,3 cm

Gewicht

635 g

Auflage

2nd edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-887157-6

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

19.12.2022

Abbildungen

22 Illustrations

Herausgeber

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

416

Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,9/2,3 cm

Gewicht

635 g

Auflage

2nd edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-887157-6

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels

    • GENERAL INTRODUCTION

    • 1: MOTIVES FOR TRAVEL AND INSTRUCTIONS TO TRAVELLERS

    • Introduction

    • Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster (1570)

    • Francis Bacon, 'Letter from Thomas Bodley' (c.1579) and 'Of Travel' (1612)

    • Thomas Coryat, Prefatory Material to Coryat's Crudities (1611)

    • Richard Eden, The Decades of the New World, or West India (1555), 'The Preface to The Reader'

    • Richard Hakluyt the younger, Prefatory material to The Principal Navigations (1589, 1598)

    • Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus of Purchas His Pilgrimes (1625), 'Epistle to the Reader' and 'On Solomon's Navy'

    • 2: EUROPE

    • Introduction

    • Sir Robert Dallington, The View of France (1604)

    • Thomas Coryat, Coryat's Crudities (1611), Observations of Venice, Germany, and Switzerland

    • The Return of Master William Harborne from Constantinople over land to London, 1588

    • Sir Charles Somerset, Travel Diary (1611-2), Observations of Paris and Florence

    • Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617), Observations of Italy and Ireland

    • William Lithgow, The Total Discourse of His Rare Adventures (1632), Account of his Imprisonment in Spain

    • 3: THE NORTH

    • Introduction

    • George Abbot, A Brief Description of the Whole World (1599)

    • Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617), Observations of Denmark: Copenhagen and Elsinore

    • Giles Fletcher the elder, The history of Russia (1591), Description of Russia

    • George Best, A True Discourse of the Late Voyages of Discovery (1589), 'On the Discovery of Meta Incognita'

    • Sir George Peckham, 'A true report of the late discoveries . . . of the Newfound Lands' (1583)

    • John Davis, 'On the Inuit of Greenland' (1586)

    • 4: AFRICA

    • Introduction

    • Sebastian Munster, A Treatise of New India, trans. Richard Eden (1553), The Islands of East Africa

    • 'The Voyage made by M. John Hawkins ... to the coast of Guinea, and the Indies of Nova Hispania' (1564)

    • Richard Madox, Diary (1582), Observations of Sierra Leone

    • Duarte Lopez, A Report of the Kingdom of the Congo (1597), Description of the Congo and Southern Africa

    • Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, The History and Description of Africa, trans. John Pory (1600), Comments on North Africa

    • George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey Begun . . . 1610 (1615), Observations of the Egyptians

    • Richard Jobson, The Golden Trade: or the Discovery of the River Gambra (1623)

    • 5: ISLAMIC WEST ASIA AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

    • Introduction

    • Anthony Jenkinson, 'Kazan to the Caspian Sea and the Tartar Peoples' (1558)

    • Thomas Dallam, Diary (1599-1600), 'Journey Through the Eastern Mediterranean to Istanbul'

    • Anthony Sherley, Sir Anthony Sherley: his Relation of his Travels into Persia (1613), Persian Statecraft and Religion

    • Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617), Observations of the Ottoman Empire

    • George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey Begun . . . 1610 (1615), Observations of the Jews of Ottoman Palestine

    • Henry Timberlake, A True and Strange Discourse on the Travels of Two English Pilgrims (1603), Description of Ottoman Jerusalem

    • William Lithgow, The Total Discourse of His Rare Adventures (1632), Comments on Jerusalem

    • 6: EAST ASIA AND THE SOUTH SEAS

    • Introduction

    • Francis Petty, 'The admirable and prosperous voyage of . . . Thomas Cavendish . . . into The South Seas, and from thence round about the circumference of the whole earth' (1586-8), Observations of the South Sea Islanders

    • A letter of father Diego De Pantoia . . . written [from] the Court of the King of China' (9 March 1602)

    • Sir Henry Middleton, Two Accounts of his Voyage to the Moluccas (1604-6)

    • Two Accounts of Japan: Arthur Hatch (1623) and John Saris (1613)

    • Edward Terry, A Voyage to East India (1616-19), Account of the Mughal Court

    • William Adams, 'Logbook' (1614-19), Journey to Cochin China and Tonkin

    • Peter Mundy, The Travels of Peter Mundy in Asia (1628-34), Observations of India

    • 7: THE AMERICAS

    • Introduction

    • Richard Eden, The Decades of the New World, or West India (1555), Three Descriptions of American Natives

    • Bartolomé de Las Casas, A brief narration of the destruction of the Indies by the Spaniards, trans. M. M. S. (1583)

    • Thomas Harriot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588, 1590)

    • Walter Raleigh, The discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana (1596)

    • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 'Of the Cannibals' (1580), trans. John Florio (1603)

    • William Strachey, The History of Travel into Virginia Britania (1612)

    • Captain John Smith, The General History of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), The Story of Pocahontas

    • 8: ENGLAND FROM ELSEWHERE

    • Nicander Nucius, 'Travels' (1546), Relation of England, Scotland, and Ireland

    • Étienne Perlin, 'Description of England' (1553?)

    • Thomas Platter, Diary (1599), 'Journey from Calais to London'

    • Emmanuel van Meteren, 'Description of the English' (c.1612)

    • EPILOGUE: WOMEN TRAVELLERS

    • Introduction

    • 'The Voyage of Lady Catherine Whetenhall from Brussels into Italy' (1649-50)

    • Guide to Further Reading