Travel Knowledge European "Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period

by Kamps, Ivo; Singh, Jyotsna

• ISBN13: 9780312222994
• ISBN10: 0312222998
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-13
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Travel Knowledge examines European travel writing from 1500-1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. The importance of travel literature has grown in the humanities as scholars plumb such texts for their insights on colonialism, the other, and the nation, but this is one of the first volumes on European travel in the early modern period. The essays further distinguish themselves by focusing not on the European discovery of the Americas, but on voyages to the east, and by allowing the voices of marginalized travelers to speak through history. This collection includes both critical essays and the primary texts to which they refer, a unique pairing. Travel Knowledge is essential reading in history, literature, and ethnography.

Author Biography

Ivo Kamps is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi.

Jyotsna Singh is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

Note on Organization	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(16)
List of Suggested Readings	17	(6)
PART I: TRAVELERS INTO THE LEVANT
Section One
Daniel J. Vitkus
Primary Materials
Excerpt from A Relation of a Journey begun An. Dom. 1610 (1615)	23	(5)
George Sandys
Excerpt from Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures, and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene Years Travayles, from Scotland, to the most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica (1632)	28	(7)
William Lithgow
Essay
Trafficking with the Turk: English Travelers in the Ottoman Empire during the Early Seventeenth Century	35	(18)
Daniel J. Vitkus
Section Two
Mary C. Fuller
Primary Materials
Excerpts from his diary (British Museum, Additional MS. 17,480)	53	(7)
Thomas Dallam's
Excerpts from The famous and Wonderfull recoverie of a ship of Bristoll (1622)	60	(6)
John Rawlins
Essay
English Turks and Resistant Travelers: Conversion to Islam and Homosocial Courtship	66	(9)
Mary C. Fuller
Section Three
Gerald MacLean
Primary Materials
``To my Noble and Judicious Friend Sir Henry Blount upon his Voyage.''	75	(4)
Bishop Henry King
A Voyage into the Levant (1636)	79	(6)
Henry Blount
Essay
Ottomanism before Orientalism? Bishop King Praises Henry Blount, Passenger in the Levant	85	(12)
Gerald MacLean
Section Four
Rebecca Chung
Primary Materials
Selected Letters	97	(13)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Essay
A Woman Triumphs: From Travels of an English Lady in Europe, Asia, and Africa (1763)	110	(17)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Rebecca Chung
PART II: TRAVELERS TO INDIA
Section Five
Shankar Raman
Primary Materials
Excerpts from Historia do descobrimento e conquista da India pelos Portugueses. 1582 English translation by Nicholas Lichefield, published as The First Book of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias	127	(2)
Fernao Lopes de Castanheda
Excerpts from Os Lusiadas (1572) (Translated by Leonard Bacon as The Lusiads)	129	(3)
Luis Vaz de Camoes
Excerpt from Theatrum Orbis Terranum (1570)	132	(2)
John Norton
Abraham Ortelius
Essay
Back to the Future: Forging History in Luis de Camoes's Os Lusiadas	134	(15)
Shankar Raman
Section Six
Ivo Kamps
Primary Materials
Excerpts from Itinerario. The Voyage of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the East Indies (1598)	149	(11)
William Phillip
Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
Essay
Colonizing the Colonizer: A Dutchman in Asia Portuguesa	160	(25)
Ivo Kamps
Section Seven
Jyotsna G. Singh
Primary Materials
Excerpts from A Voyage to East-India (1665 Reprint) included in the folio volume entitled The Travels of Pietro Della Valle into East India and Arabia Deserta, Whereunto is Added A Relation of Sir Thomas Roe's Voyage unto the East Indies (1665) and The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving (1649)	185	(12)
Edward Terry
Essay
History or Colonial Ethnography? The Ideological Formation of Edward Terry's A Voyage to East India (1655 & 1665) and The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving (1649)	197	(14)
Jyotsna G. Singh
PART III: TRAVEL TO AFRICA
Section Eight
Gary Taylor
Primary Materials
Excerpts from the journals of John Hearne and William Finch, merchants, aboard The Red Dragon in 1607, en route from England to India on the third voyage of the East India Company, commanded	211	(12)
William Keeling
Essay
Hamlet in Africa 1607	223	(26)
Gary Taylor
Section Nine
Oumelbanine Zhiri
Primary Materials
Excerpts from Description of Africa (1550)	249	(9)
Leo Africanus
Essay
Leo Africanus's Description of Africa	258	(9)
Oumelbanine Zhiri
Note on Contributors	267	(2)
Index	269