Travel Knowledge [electronic resource] : European "Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period

Travel Knowledge examines European travel writing from 1500-1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. The importance of travel literature has grown in the humanities as scholars plumb such texts for their insights on colonialism, the other, and the nation, but this is one of the first volumes on European travel in the early modern period. The essays further distinguish themselves by focusing not on the European discovery of the Americas, but on voyages to the east, and by allowing the voices of marginalized travelers to speak through history. This collection includes both critical essays and the primary texts to which they refer, a unique pairing. Travel Knowledge is essential reading in history, literature, and ethnography. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-16 List of Suggested Readings....Pages 17-19 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 George Sandys....Pages 23-28 William Lithgow....Pages 28-34 Trafficking with the Turk: English Travelers in the Ottoman Empire During the Early Seventeenth Century....Pages 35-52 Thomas Dallam....Pages 53-59 John Rawlins....Pages 60-65 English Turks and Resistant Travelers: Conversion to Islam and Homosocial Courtship....Pages 66-73 Bishop Henry King....Pages 75-79 Henry Blount....Pages 79-84 Ottomanism before Orientalism? Bishop King Praises Henry Blount, Passenger in the Levant....Pages 85-96 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu....Pages 97-109 A Woman Triumphs: From Travels of an English Lady in Europe, Asia, and Africa (1763) By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu....Pages 110-124 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Fernão Lopes De Castanheda....Pages 127-129 Luis Vaz De Camões....Pages 129-132 Abraham Ortelius....Pages 132-133 Back to the Future: Forging History in Luís De Camões’s Os Lusíadas....Pages 134-147 Jan Huyghen Van Linschoten....Pages 149-159 Colonizing the Colonizer: a Dutchman in Asia Portuguesa....Pages 160-183 Edward Terry....Pages 185-196 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 History or Colonial Ethnography? The Ideological Formation of Edward Terry’s A Voyage to East-India (1655 & 1665) and The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving (1649)....Pages 197-207 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 The Red Dragon in Sierra Leone....Pages 211-222 Hamlet in Africa 1607....Pages 223-248 Leo Africanus....Pages 249-257 Leo Africanus’s Description of Africa....Pages 258-266 Back Matter....Pages 267-274

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These essays examine European travel writing from 1500 to 1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. By focusing on voyages to the East, the essays allow the voices of marginalised travellers to speak I have spoken sufficienlty, at least what I can, of this Nation in generall: now convert we to the Person and Court of this Sultan. Edited By Ivo Kamps And Jyotsna G. Singh. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. George Sandys is the author of A Relation of a Journey begun An. Dom. 1610.