Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery
An Anthology
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:23rd Feb '06
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This is a primary source collection of narratives about travel and discovery in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 16th century. The authors represent multiple nationalities, including Spanish, Huguenot, French, Italian, and English, and the locations range from Brazil to Canada, China to Virginia, and Angola to Florida, encompassing the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.
...extensive and generous selection of travel narratives from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries...a splendid anthology...auhoritive...and based on wide-ranging scholarship. * Andrew Hadfield, Studies in Travel Writing *
ISBN: 9780195155976
Dimensions: 231mm x 158mm x 29mm
Weight: 599g
432 pages