Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet - An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil

This is the first comprehensive, annotated edition in English of Anthony Knivet's 1625 travel account.

List of contents

Introduction; The admirable adventures and strange fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet, which went with Master Thomas Candish in his second voyage to the South Sea, 1591; Appendixes; Selected bibliography; Note on the text.

About the author

Vivien Lessa de Sá is Teaching Associate in Portuguese Studies at the University of Cambridge and Lecturer in English for the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Her Portuguese translation of Anthony Knivet's adventures was published in Brazil in 2007.

Summary

Anthony Knivet's Admirable Adventures is the earliest detailed description of Brazil written by an Englishman. His account gives unique firsthand glimpse into the land and people of early colonial Brazil, including descriptions of native tribes and local habits given for the first time.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Knivet, Knivet Anthony
• Assisted by: Vivien Kogut Lessa De Sa (Editor), Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107090910
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09091-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: New Approaches to the Americas; New Approaches to the Americas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Brazil, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600