Travel knowledge : European "discoveries" in the early modern period / edited by Ivo Kamps and Jyotsna G. Singh.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note on Organization -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- List of Suggested Readings -- Part I. Travelers Into the Levant -- Section 1.-- Primary Materials -- Excerpt from A Relation of a Journey begun An. Dom. 1610 (1615) -- Excerpt from Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene Yeares Travayles, from Scotland, to the most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica (1632) -- Essay -- Trafficking with the Turk: English Travelers in the Ottoman Empire during the Early Seventeenth Century -- Section 2.-- Primary Materials -- Excerpts from his diary (British Museum, Additional MS. 17,480) -- Excerpts from The famous and wonderfull recoverie of a ship of Bristoll (1622) -- Essay -- English Turks and Resistant Travelers: Conversion to Islam and Homosocial Courtship -- Section 3.-- Primary Materials -- "To my Noble and Judicious Friend Sir Henry Blount upon his Voyage." -- A Voyage into the Levant (1636) -- Essay -- Ottomanism before Orientalism? Bishop King Praises Henry Blount, Passenger in the Levant -- Section 4.-- Primary Materials -- Selected Letters -- Essay -- A Woman Triumphs: From Travels of an English Lady in Europe, Asia, and Africa (1763) by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Part II. Travelers to India -- Section 5.-- Primary Materials -- Excerpts from Historia do descobrimento e conquista da India pelos Portugueses. 1582 English translation by Nicholas Lichefield, published as The First Book of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias -- Excerpts from Os Lusiadas (1572) (Translated by Leonard Bacon as The Lusiads) -- Excerpt from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570) (Translated by John Norton) -- Essay -- Back to the Future: Forging History in Luis de Camoes's Os Lusiadas -- Section 6.-- Primary Materials -- Excerpts from Itinerario. The Voyage of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the East Indies (1598) (Translated by William Phillip [?]) -- Essay -- Colonizing the Colonizer: A Dutchman in Asia Portuguesa -- Section 7.-- Primary Materials -- Excerpts from A Voyage to East-India (1665 reprint) included in the folio volume entitled The Travels of Pietro Della Valle into East India and Arabia deserta, Whereunto is Added A Relation of Sir Thomas Roe's Voyage unto the East Indies (1665) and The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving (1649) -- Essay -- 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) -- Part III. Travel to Africa -- Section 8.-- Primary Materials -- Excerpts from the journals of John Hearne and William Finch, merchants, aboard The Red Dragon in 1607, en route from England to India on the third voyage of the East India Company, commanded by William Keeling -- Essay -- Hamlet in Africa 1607 -- Section 9.-- Primary Materials -- Excerpts from Description of Africa (1550) -- Essay -- Leo Africanus's Description of Africa -- Note on Contributors -- Index.

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