Mancall, Peter.

Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe : Travel Accounts and Their Audiences. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (176 pages)

Intro -- Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: What Fynes Moryson Knew -- Making Something of It: Questions of Value in the Early English Travel Collection -- Reading Travels in the Culture of Curiosity: Thévenot's Collection of Voyages -- The Construction of an Authoritative Text: Peter Kolb's Description of the Khoikhoi at the Cape of Good Hope in the Eighteenth Century -- Africans in the Quaker Image: Anthony Benezet, African Travel Narratives, and Revolutionary-Era Antislavery -- Travel Writing and Humanistic Culture: A Blunted Impact?.

This volume of five essays and a critical introduction present recent interpretations of travelers and their narratives in the early modern world, with particular attention to the relationship between the act of travel and descriptions of it.

9789047418702


Europeans -- Travel -- History.
Voyages and travels.


Electronic books.

G156 -- .B76 2007eb

910.4

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