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Amazons, savages, and machiavels : travel and colonial writing in English, 1550-1630 : an anthology /

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Other Authors: Hadfield, Andrew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Travelers' writings, English.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700.
British > Foreign countries > Literary collections.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 16th century > Literary collections.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 17th century > Literary collections.
Great Britain > Colonies > Literary collections.
British colonies.
British > Foreign countries.
English literature > Early modern.
Anthologie.
Englisch.
Reiseliteratur.
Geschichte 1550-1630.
1500 - 1700
History.
Literary collections.
Table of Contents:
  • Richard Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India (1555), 'the preface to the reader'
  • Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster (1570)
  • Richard Hakluyt the younger, prefatory material to The Principall Navigations (1589, 1598)
  • Thomas Coryat, prefatory material to Coryats Crudities (1611)
  • Francis Bacon, 'of travel' (1612)
  • Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes (1625), 'epistle to the reader'
  • Sir Robert Dallington, The View of France (1604)
  • Thomas Coryat, Coryats Crudities (1611), observations of Venice, Germany, and Switzerland
  • Sir Charles Somerset, Travel Diary (1611-12), observations of Paris and Florence
  • Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617), observations of Italy and Ireland.
  • Sir Henry Wotton, letter to James I from Venice (1618)
  • William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures (1632), account of his imprisonment in Spain
  • 'Voyage made by M. John Hawkins ... to the coast of Guinea, and the Indies of Nova Hispania' (1564)
  • Giles Fletcher, 'the description of the countrey of Russia' (1588)
  • John Leo (Africanus), The History and Description of Africa, trans. John Pory (1600), comments on North Africans
  • George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey Begun ... 1610 (1615), observations of the Egyptians and the Jews
  • Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617), observations of the Ottoman Empire
  • William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures (1632), 'comments upon Jerusalem'
  • Francis Petty, 'the admiral and prosperous voyage of Thomas Cavendish into the South Sea, and from thence around about the circumference of the whole earth' (1586-8), observations of the South Sea islanders
  • '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)
  • Travels of Peter Mundy in Asia (1628-34), observations of India.
  • Richard Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India (1555), three descriptions of American natives
  • Bartolomé de Las Casas, A briefe narration of the destruction of the Indies by the Spaniards, trans. M.M.S. (1583)
  • Sir George Peckham, 'a true report of the late discoveries ... of the Newfound Lands' (1583)
  • Thomas Harriot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588, 1590)
  • Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596)
  • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 'of the canniballes' (1580), trans. John Florio (1603)
  • William Strachey, The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania (1612)
  • Captain John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), the story of Pocahontas.