Amazons, savages, and machiavels
Subtitle: travel and colonial writing in English, 1550-1630 : an anthology
By: edited by Andrew Hadfield.
Contributors: Hadfield, Andrew.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Travelers' writings, English; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700; British -- Foreign countries -- Literary collections; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 16th century -- Literary collections; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 17th century -- Literary collections; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Literary collections
Genres: Literary collections.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. MOTIVES FOR TRAVEL AND INSTRUCTIONS; title: TO TRAVELLERS; title: INTRODUCTION; title: Richard Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India (I555),; title: 'The Preface to the Reader'; title: Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster (570); title: Richard Hakluyt the younger, Prefatory Material to The Principall; title: Navigations (1589, 1598); title: Thomas Coryat, Prefatory Material to Coryats Crudities (161i); title: Francis Bacon, 'Of Travel' (I612); title: Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes; title: (1625), 'Epistle to the Reader'; title: 2. EUROPE; title: INTRODUCTION; title: Sir Robert Dallington, The View of France (I604); title: Thomas Coryat, Coryats Crudities (161), Observations of Venice,; title: | Germany, and Switzerland; title: Sir Charles Somerset, Travel Diary (I6II-I2), Observations of Paris; title: and Florence; title: Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617), Observations of Italy and; title: Ireland; title: Sir Henry Wotton, Letter to James I from Venice (i6I8); title: William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures; title: (1632), Account of his Imprisonment in Spain; title: 3. AFRICA AND THE NEAR EAST; title: INTRODUCTION; title: 'The Voyage Made by M. John Hawkins to the coast of Guinea,; title: and the Indies of Nova Hispania' (1564); title: Giles Fletcher, 'The description of the countrey of Russia' (1588); title: John Leo (Africanus), The History and Description ofAfrica, trans.; title: John Pory (i60o), Comments on North Africans; title: George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey Begun z6io (I6I5),; title: Observations of the Egyptians and the Jews; title: Fynes Moryson, An Itinerary (1617), Observations of the Ottoman; title: Empire; title: William Lithgow, The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures; title: (1632), 'Comments upon Jerusalem'; title: 4. THE FAR EAST AND THE SOUTH SEA; title: ISLANDS; title: INTRODUCTION; title: Francis Petty, 'The admiral and prosperous voyage of Thomas; title: Cavendish into the South Sea, and from thence round about the; title: circumference of the whole earth' (1586-8), Observations of the; title: South Sea Islanders; title: 'A Letter of Father Diego De Pantoia written [from] the Court; title: of the King of China' (9 March I602); title: Sir Henry Middleton, Two Accounts of his Voyage to the Moluccas; title: (1604-6); title: Two Accounts ofJapan Arthur Hatch (623) and John Saris (I6I3); title: The Travels of Peter Mundy in Asia (1628-34), Observations of India; title: 5. THE AMERICAS; title: INTRODUCTION; title: Richard Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India (I555),; title: Three Descriptions of A erican Natives; title: Bartolome de Las Casas, A briefe narration of the destruction of the; title: Indies by the Spaniards, trans. M.M.S. (1583); title: Sir George Peckham, A tru poe report dioveries. of the; title: Newfound Lands' (1583); title: Thomas Harriot, A Brief and True Report ofthe NewFound Land; title: fVirginia (I588, 59o); title: Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtful; title: Empyre of Guiana (I596); title: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 'Ofthe Canniballes' (580), trans.; title: John Florio (I603); title: Wiliam Strachey, The Historie of Travel into Virginia Britania; title: CaptainJohn Smith, he Generall Historie of Virginia, New-; title: Engiland, and the Summer Isles (i624), The Stor of Pocahontas; title: K Guide to Further Reading.