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Travel Knowledge

European "Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period

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Editors:
  1. Ivo Kamps
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  2. Jyotsna G. Singh
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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ivo Kamps, Jyotsna G. Singh
      Pages 1-16

  3. List of Suggested Readings

    1. List of Suggested Readings

      • Ivo Kamps, Jyotsna G. Singh
      Pages 17-19

  4. Travelers into the Levant

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Section One

      1. George Sandys
        • Daniel J. Vitkus
        Pages 23-28
      2. William Lithgow
        • Daniel J. Vitkus
        Pages 28-34
      3. Trafficking with the Turk: English Travelers in the Ottoman Empire During the Early Seventeenth Century
        • Daniel J. Vitkus
        Pages 35-52

    3. Section Two

      1. Thomas Dallam
        • Mary C. Fuller
        Pages 53-59
      2. John Rawlins
        • Mary C. Fuller
        Pages 60-65
      3. English Turks and Resistant Travelers: Conversion to Islam and Homosocial Courtship
        • Mary C. Fuller
        Pages 66-73

    4. Section Three

      1. Bishop Henry King
        • Gerald MacLean
        Pages 75-79
      2. Henry Blount
        • Gerald MacLean
        Pages 79-84
      3. Ottomanism before Orientalism? Bishop King Praises Henry Blount, Passenger in the Levant
        • Gerald MacLean
        Pages 85-96

  5. Travelers to India

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Section Five

      1. Fernão Lopes De Castanheda
        • Shankar Raman
        Pages 127-129
      2. Luis Vaz De Camões
        • Shankar Raman
        Pages 129-132
      3. Abraham Ortelius
        • Shankar Raman
        Pages 132-133
      4. Back to the Future: Forging History in Luís De Camões’s <i>Os Lusíadas</i>
        • Shankar Raman
        Pages 134-147
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About this book

Travel Knowledge examines European travel writing from 1500-1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. The importance of travel literature has grown in the humanities as scholars plumb such texts for their insights on colonialism, the other, and the nation, but this is one of the first volumes on European travel in the early modern period. The essays further distinguish themselves by focusing not on the European discovery of the Americas, but on voyages to the east, and by allowing the voices of marginalized travelers to speak through history. This collection includes both critical essays and the primary texts to which they refer, a unique pairing. Travel Knowledge is essential reading in history, literature, and ethnography.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Travel Knowledge

  • Book Subtitle: European "Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period

  • Editors: Ivo Kamps, Jyotsna G. Singh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62233-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-22270-3Published: 01 January 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-62233-7Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 274

  • Topics: Gender and Education, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

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