Kenneth Parker (ed.)

Early Modern Tales of Orient

A Critical Anthology
Herausgeber: Parker, Kenneth

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first volume to collect together these travellers tales and make them available to todays students and scholars. It challenges widely-held assumptions bout Early Modern encounters in the Orient.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 175mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780415147576
• ISBN-10: 0415147573
• Artikelnr.: 21694560

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Parker is Emeritus Professor and formerly Head of the Cultural Studies Graduate Centre, University of East London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Edward Webb : The rare and most wonderful
things (1590) William Harbourne : 'The Voyage of Susan of London to
Constantinople' (1596) Richard Wragge : 'A description of a voyage to
Constantinople and Syria' (1958) Anthony Sherley : Sir Anthony Sherley his
relation of his travels into Persia (1601) William Biddulph : The travels
of certaine Englishmen (1609) John Cartwright : The Preacher's Travels
(1611) George Sayndys : A Relation of a Journey (1615) Fynes Moryson : An
Itinerary (1617) William Lithgow The totall discourse of the rare
adventures (1632) Henry Blount : A breife relation of a journey (1636) Sir
Thomas Herbert : Some yeers travel into divers parts (1677) Appendices
Index.