Travellers and Cosmographers

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'The collection brings to the English-reading public research conducted in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Dutch archives. It fills an important gap for historians of the early modern world and unravels a wealth of documentary resources. Joan-Pau Rubies?s is one of the foremost writers on the history of early modern western travel, and the relation between travel, ethnography, and cosmography. ...these essays are uniformly superlative... Travellers and cosmographers is clearly written and widely researched. It is a treasure trove of ideas, insights, and allusions to new sources; the footnotes are extensive, revealing meticulous exploration of the European archives. The fact that the collection covers both East and West makes it required reading for students and scholars working in the field of early modern history.' - Journal of Global History

'.. presents illuminating analyses in dense but engaged writing, and all essays, in order to do justice to the richness of scholarship and reflection they contain, would deserve a review of their own.'- Itinerario

'This volume collects together [Rubies's] most important essays published between 1991 and 2005. It is to be particularly welcomed owing to the fact that several of the essays previously appeared in out of the way publications. ... Taken together, these sometimes densely argued, but always richly rewarding, essays fulsomely realize their ambitious objective, which is to show nothing less than how ' travel writing decisively contributed to the transformation of European culture towards the concerns of the Enlightenment.' - The Historical Journal

'As a stylist and guide through this information, Rubies is lucid, always to point, satisfyingly ranging in his historical examples, and very skilled in drawing conclusions from a tantalizing body of primary evidence.' - Sixteenth Century Journal