Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery An Anthology

by Mancall, Peter C.

• ISBN13: 9780195155976
• ISBN10: 0195155971
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ushered in a new era of discovery as explorers traversed the globe, returning home with vivid tales of distant lands and exotic peoples. Aided by the invention of the printing press in Europe, travelers were able to spread their accounts to wider audiencesthan ever before. In Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery, historian Peter C. Mancall has compiled some of the most important travel accounts of this era. Written by authors from Spain, France, Italy, England, China, and North Africa describing locations that range from Brazil to Canada,China to Virginia, and Angola to Vietnam, these accounts provided crucial insight into unfamiliar cultures and environments, and also betrayed the prejudices of their own societies, revealing as much about the observers themselves as they did about faraway lands.From Christopher Columbus to lesser-known figures such as the Huguenot missionary Jean de Lery, this anthology brings together first-hand accounts of places connected by the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Unlike other collections, Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery offers a globalview of travel at a crucial stage in world, and human, history, with accounts written by non-European authors, including two new translations. Included here are the Mughal Emperor Babur's first thoughts of India upon establishing his empire there, the Chinese chronicler Ma Huan's report detailingChinese travel to the Middle East during the fifteenth century, and an account of Africa written by the man known as Leo Africanus. In addition to these travel narratives, this anthology features rare pictures from sixteenth-century printed books, including images of Brazil, Roanoke, Guiana, andIndia, which, together with the accounts themselves, provide a detailed understanding of the many ways in which fifteenth and sixteenth century travelers and readers imagined other worlds.

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-Razzaq al-Samarqandi	129	(9)
Document 9 Magellan's Voyage
Antonio Pigafetta, trans. R.A. Skelton	138	(8)
Document 10 The Baburnama
Zahiruddin Muhammed Babur, trans. Wheeler M. Thackston	146	(10)
Document 11 Of the Ilande of Giapan (1565)
Luis Fróis	156	(9)
Document 12 An Excellent Treatise of the Kingdom of China (1590)
Duarte de Sande	165	(11)
Document 13 A Discourse of the Kingdome of China
Matteo Ricci	176	(11)
Document 14 Discourse of Voyages into ye Easte and West Indies (1598)
Jan Huygen van Linschoten	187	(20)
Part III America
Document 15 The Letter of Christopher Columbus to Luis de Santangel, 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
Hermán 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 Historie of the East and West Indies (1604)
José de Acosta, trans. E. Grinistone	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 been gobierno (1615-1616)
Felipe Guarnan Poma de Ayala, trans. Rolena Adorno and José Cárdenas Bunsen	341	(22)
Part IV Europe
Document 31 Turkish Letters (1554-1562)
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, trans. Seyinor Forster	363	(6)
Document 32 Discoverie of Vaigatz and Nova Zembia (1556)
Richard Johnson	369	(4)
Document 33 En-Nafhat 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 & Albuquerque Coelho (1601)
Afonso Lois, C.R. Boxer, trans.	392	(8)
Document 37 Travels in England (1599)
Thomas Platter, trans. Clare Williams	400	(5)
Index	405