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Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology

Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 JEMH 11,6 Also available online – www.brill.nl/jemh 1 Mancall, Peter, Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 13. Mancall, Peter, Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xv + 413 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 19515 596 3. This anthology of travel literature presents selections from printed travel accounts, primarily from the sixteenth century, divided up into sections on travel to Africa, to Asia, to America, and to Europe. The majority of the excerpts are between fi ve and fi fteen pages, and though most were written by Europeans, the volume also includes some readings by non-Europeans, for example Ma Huan’s fi fteenth-century Chinese account of his journey around the Indian Ocean. The introduction serves not only to give background for the readings, but also to guide the reader’s analysis of the texts. It opens with a quotation from Lévi-Strauss, reminding the reader that these early modern travelers imposed their own categories on what they saw. The introduction goes on to develop this idea, discussing the ways in which these accounts served in the construction of Orientalism and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Early Modern History Brill

Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology

Lisy-Wagner, Laura
Journal of Early Modern History , Volume 11 (6): 533 – Jan 1, 2007
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 JEMH 11,6 Also available online – www.brill.nl/jemh 1 Mancall, Peter, Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 13. Mancall, Peter, Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xv + 413 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 19515 596 3. This anthology of travel literature presents selections from printed travel accounts, primarily from the sixteenth century, divided up into sections on travel to Africa, to Asia, to America, and to Europe. The majority of the excerpts are between fi ve and fi fteen pages, and though most were written by Europeans, the volume also includes some readings by non-Europeans, for example Ma Huan’s fi fteenth-century Chinese account of his journey around the Indian Ocean. The introduction serves not only to give background for the readings, but also to guide the reader’s analysis of the texts. It opens with a quotation from Lévi-Strauss, reminding the reader that these early modern travelers imposed their own categories on what they saw. The introduction goes on to develop this idea, discussing the ways in which these accounts served in the construction of Orientalism and

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Published: Jan 1, 2007

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