Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe : Travel Accounts and Their Audiences.

By: Mancall, PeterMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (176 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789047418702Subject(s): Europeans -- Travel -- History | Voyages and travelsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe : Travel Accounts and Their AudiencesDDC classification: 910.4 LOC classification: G156 -- .B76 2007ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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?.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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