page_title: Thomas Coryat
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caption_attribution_description: Image taken from: Title: "Bombay and Western India. A series of stray papers" Author: DOUGLAS, James - of Bombay Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 010056.h.10.", "British Library OC ORW.1986.a.2990" Volume: 01 Page: 371 Place of Publishing: London Date of Publishing: 1893 Publisher: Sampson Low &amp; Co. Issuance: monographic Identifier: 000973604 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Open the page in the British Library's itemViewer (page image 371) Download the PDF for this book Image found on book scan 371 (NB not a pagenumber)Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here.
context_page_description: Thomas Coryat was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. He is principally remembered for two volumes of writings he left regarding his travels, often on foot, through Europe and parts of Asia. He is often credited with introducing the table fork to England, with "Furcifer" becoming one of his nicknames. His description of how the Italians shielded themselves from the sun resulted in the word "umbrella" being introduced into English.
context_section_description: Thomas Coryat (also Coryate) (c. 1577 – 1617) was an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age.  He is principally remembered for two volumes of writings he left regarding his travels, often on foot, through Europe and parts of Asia.  He is often credited with introducing the table fork to England, with "Furcifer" (Latin: fork-bearer, rascal) becoming one of his nicknames. His description of how the Italians shielded themselves from the sun resulted in the word "umbrella" being introduced into English.
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