Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery An Anthology

by Mancall, Peter C.

• ISBN13: 9780195155969
• ISBN10: 0195155963
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Peter C. Mancall is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and the Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He is the author and editor of many titles, including Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(46)
A Note on Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading	49	(8)
Note on the Text	57	(4)
Part I Africa
Document 1 A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco Da Gama (1497-1499)
E.G. Ravenstein, trans	61	(5)
Document 2 The Second Voyage to Guinea (1554)
Anonymous	66	(9)
Document 3 The Voyage Set Forth by M. John Newton and M. John Bird (1588)
Anthony Ingram	75	(3)
Document 4 The Adventures of Andrew Battel
Andrew Battel	78	(12)
Document 5 A Reporte of the Kingdom of Congo (1597)
Duarte Lopes, trans. Abraham Hartwell	90	(6)
Document 6 A Geographical Historie of Africa (1600)
Leo Africanus, trans. John Pory	96	(19)
Part II Asia
Document 7 Ying-Yai Sheng-Lan—The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores (1433)
Ma Huan, trans. J.V.G. Mills	115	(14)
Document 8 Narrative of a Journey to Hindustan (1442-1444)
'Abd al-Razzáq al-Samarqandi	129	(9)
Document 9 Magellan's Voyage
Antonio Pigafetta, trans. R.A. Skelton	138	(8)
Document 10 The Baburnama
Zahiruddin Mohammed Babur, trans. Wheeler M. Thackston	146	(10)
Document 11 Of the Ilalide of Giapan (1565)
Luis Fróis	156	(9)
Document 12 An Excellent Treatise of the Kingdom of China (1590)
Duarte do Sande	165	(11)
Document 13 A Discourse of the Kingdome of China
Matteo Ricci	176	(11)
Document 14 Discourse of Voyages into ye Paste and West -Indies (1598)
Jan Huygen van Linschoten	187	(20)
Part III America
Document 15 The Letter of Christopher Columbus to Luis de Santángel, Announcing His Discovery (1493)
Albert Bushnell Hart and Edward Charming, trans.	207	(7)
Document 16 Mondus Novus (1504)
Amerigo Vespucci, trans. G. Northrup	214	(10)
Document 17 Letters from Mexico
Hernán Cortés, trans. Anthony Pagden	224	(9)
Document 18 A Short and Briefe Narration of the Two Navigations and Discourses (1580)
Jacques Cartier, trans. John Florio	233	(7)
Document 19 Journey to the Country of Cibola Newly Discovered (1540)
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, ed. Richard Hakluyt	240	(3)
Document 20 Of the West Indies
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, ed. Richard Willes	243	(4)
Document 21 Chronicles of Peru
Pedro Cieza de León, trans. Harriet de Onas	247	(9)
Document 22 The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse Among the Wild Tribes of Eastern Brazil (1547-1555)
Hans Stade, trans. Albert Tootal	256	(7)
Document 23 History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (1578)
Jean de Léry	263	(18)
Pictures of Brazil	273	(8)
Document 24 The New Found Worlde, or Antarctike (1568)
André Thevet	281	(6)
Document 25 A True Reporte of the Laste Voyage into the West and Northwest (1577)
Dionyse Settle	287	(12)
Document 26 The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea (1577-1580)
Anonymous, ed. Richard Hakluyt	299	(6)
Document 27 The Naturall and Morall Historic of the Fast and West Indies (1604)
José de Acosta, trans. E. Grimstone	305	(7)
Document 28 A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1590)
Thomas Harriot	312	(20)
Pictures of Roanoke	322	(10)
Document 29 The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596)
Walter Ralegh	332	(9)
Pictures of Guiana	338
Document 30 El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615-1616)
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, trans. Rolena Adorno and José Cárdenas Bunsen	341	(22)
Part IV Europe
Document 31 Turkish Letters (1554-1562)
Ogier Ghiselin do Busbecq, trans. Seymor Forster	363	(6)
Document 32 Discoverie of Vaigatz and Nova Zembla (1556)
Richard Johnson	369	(4)
Document 33 En-Nat-kat El-Miskiya, Fi-S-Sifarat Et-Tourkiya: Relation d'une ambassade Marocaine en Turque (1589-1591)
Abu'-l Hasan 'Ali al-Tamgruti, trans. Lisa Bitel and Peter C. Mancall	373	(6)
Document 34 An Itinerary...Containing His Ten Years Travell (1617)
Fynes Moryson	379	(7)
Document 35 Travels in England (1598)
Paul Hentzner, ed. William Benchley Rye	386	(6)
Document 36 Shipwreck Suffered by Jorge d'Albuquerque Coelho (1601)
Afonso Luis, C.R. Boxer, trans.	392
Document 37 Travels in England (1599)
Thomas Platter, trans. Clare Williams	400	(5)
Index	405