Travel Knowledge
"Witnesses" to "Navigations, Traffiques, and Discoveries"
Published on 23. June 2000
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-333-91552-3 (ISBN)
Description
This text examines European travel writing from 1500 to 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 nation. By focusing not on European discovery of the Americas but on voyages to the East, the essays allow the voices of marginalized travellers to speak through history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
facsimiles, portraits
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
507 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-91552-3 (9780333915523)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Vilifying and domesticating the other - tales of exploitation from the Dutch East India Company, I. Kamps; cultural translation or fact? - the ideological formation of Edward Terry's "Voyage to East India", J.G. Singh; trafficking with the Turks - English travelers in the Ottoman Empire during the early 17th century, D. Vitkus; back to the future - prophetic history in Camoes, S. Raman; what the Russian saw - a Russian traveling artist's native (Bengali) theater in colonial Calcutta, 1795, S. Chatterjee; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish embassy letters, R. Chung; Shakespeare circumnavigates Africa - 1607-1608, G. Taylor; English Turks and resistant travelers - conversion to Islam as homosocial courtship, M. Fuller; Leo Africanus, geographer and traveler, O.Zhiri.