Civil and Corrupt Asia
Subtitle: Image and Text in the Itinerario and the Icones of Jan Huygen Van Linschoten
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780226847009
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian studies; History; History - General History; History: World; ASIA; Indian sub-continent; Asia - General; History / Asia; General; 1563-1611; 1563-1611.; Description and travel; East Asia; Itinerario, voyage ofte schipv; Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert van Jan Huygen van Linschoten naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien; Linschoten, Jan Huygen van,; Travel
First sentence: The Itinerario by Jan Huygen van Linschoten was a book that launched a thousand ships.