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Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels

By Andrew Hadfield

Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels General education

Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels

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Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels is an accessible and unique anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, selected to represent the world-picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century readers in England. It includes not just the narratives of discovery of the New World but also accounts of cultures already well known through trade links, such as Turkey and the Moluccan islands, and of places that featured just as significantly in the early modern English imagination: from Ireland to Russia and the Far East, from Calais to India and Africa, from France and Italy to the West Indies. Ranging from Raleigh's account of the Amazons and Captain John Smith's story of Pocahontas to Coryat's cheerful encounter with a Venetian courtesan and Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous "Of the Cannibals," the volume also includes helpful headnotes, a substantial introduction, chronology, full bibliography, and seventeen original illustrations.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2001-01-25
Publication Date:
2001-09-20
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198711867
ISBN13:
9780198711865
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
512 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
18 cm

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