Telling true tales of Islamic lands : forms of mediation in English travel writing, 1575-1630 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schleck, Julia, 1976-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press, [2011]
Subjects:	Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism. English prose literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. British > Foreign countries > History > 16th century. British > Foreign countries > History > 17th century. Islam in literature. Cultural relations in literature. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Waste and empire : George Sandys' relation of a journey begun in 1610 and the successful gentleman traveler
"The robe of truth" : fabricating credit from the Sherley Brothers' travels to Persia and the Ottoman Empire
True news from the islamic world
Turks and their paratexts: the captivity of Thomas Saunders and the ideology of form
Determining the facts of the matter : merchant letters and the principall navigations
Postscript.