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Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery

An Anthology

Peter C Mancall editor

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