Travel Knowledge: European “Discoveries” in the Early Modern Period

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-16
List of Suggested Readings....Pages 17-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
George Sandys....Pages 23-28
William Lithgow....Pages 28-34
Trafficking with the Turk: English Travelers in the Ottoman Empire During the Early Seventeenth Century....Pages 35-52
Thomas Dallam....Pages 53-59
John Rawlins....Pages 60-65
English Turks and Resistant Travelers: Conversion to Islam and Homosocial Courtship....Pages 66-73
Bishop Henry King....Pages 75-79
Henry Blount....Pages 79-84
Ottomanism before Orientalism? Bishop King Praises Henry Blount, Passenger in the Levant....Pages 85-96
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu....Pages 97-109
A Woman Triumphs: From Travels of an English Lady in Europe, Asia, and Africa (1763) By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu....Pages 110-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Fernão Lopes De Castanheda....Pages 127-129
Luis Vaz De Camões....Pages 129-132
Abraham Ortelius....Pages 132-133
Back to the Future: Forging History in Luís De Camões’s Os Lusíadas....Pages 134-147
Jan Huyghen Van Linschoten....Pages 149-159
Colonizing the Colonizer: a Dutchman in Asia Portuguesa....Pages 160-183
Edward Terry....Pages 185-196
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
History or Colonial Ethnography? The Ideological Formation of Edward Terry’s A Voyage to East-India (1655 & 1665) and The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving (1649)....Pages 197-207
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
The Red Dragon in Sierra Leone....Pages 211-222
Hamlet in Africa 1607....Pages 223-248
Leo Africanus....Pages 249-257
Leo Africanus’s Description of Africa....Pages 258-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-274