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Amazons, savages, and machiavels: travel and colonial writing in English, 1550-1630 : an anthology
2001, Oxford University Press
in English
0198711875 9780198711872
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: I. MOTIVES FOR TRAVEL AND INSTRUCTIONS
TO TRAVELLERS
INTRODUCTION
Richard Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India (I555),
'The Preface to the Reader'
Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster (570)
Richard Hakluyt the younger, Prefatory Material to The Principall
Navigations (1589, 1598)
Thomas Coryat, Prefatory Material to Coryats Crudities (161i)
Francis Bacon, 'Of Travel' (I612)
Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes
(1625), 'Epistle to the Reader'
2. EUROPE
INTRODUCTION
Sir Robert Dallington, The View of France (I604)
Thomas Coryat, Coryats Crudities (161), Observations of Venice,
| Germany, and Switzerland
Sir Charles Somerset, Travel Diary (I6II-I2), Observations of Paris
and Florence
Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617), Observations of Italy and
Ireland
Sir Henry Wotton, Letter to James I from Venice (i6I8)
William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures
(1632), Account of his Imprisonment in Spain
3. AFRICA AND THE NEAR EAST
INTRODUCTION
'The 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 ofAfrica, trans.
John Pory (i60o), Comments on North Africans
George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey Begun z6io (I6I5),
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'
4. THE FAR EAST AND THE SOUTH SEA
ISLANDS
INTRODUCTION
Francis Petty, 'The admiral and prosperous voyage of Thomas
Cavendish into the South Sea, 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 I602)
Sir Henry Middleton, Two Accounts of his Voyage to the Moluccas
(1604-6)
Two Accounts ofJapan Arthur Hatch (623) and John Saris (I6I3)
The Travels of Peter Mundy in Asia (1628-34), Observations of India
5. THE AMERICAS
INTRODUCTION
Richard Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India (I555),
Three Descriptions of A erican Natives
Bartolome de Las Casas, A briefe narration of the destruction of the
Indies by the Spaniards, trans. M.M.S. (1583)
Sir George Peckham, A tru poe report dioveries. of the
Newfound Lands' (1583)
Thomas Harriot, A Brief and True Report ofthe NewFound Land
fVirginia (I588, 59o)
Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtful
Empyre of Guiana (I596)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 'Ofthe Canniballes' (580), trans.
John Florio (I603)
Wiliam Strachey, The Historie of Travel into Virginia Britania
CaptainJohn Smith, he Generall Historie of Virginia, New-
Engiland, and the Summer Isles (i624), The Stor of Pocahontas
K Guide to Further Reading.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-316) and index.
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