Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery - An Anthology

Zusatztext ...extensive and generous selection of travel narratives from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries...a splendid anthology...auhoritive...and based on wide-ranging scholarship. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter C. Mancall, Peter C. (EDT) Mancall
• Assisted by: Peter C. Mancall (Editor), Peter C. (Professor of History Mancall (Editor), Mancall Peter C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.2006
• EAN: 9780195155976
• ISBN: 978-0-19-515597-6
• No. of pages: 413
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 248 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Mixed anthologies; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Classic Travel Writing