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| General Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Motives for Travel and Instructions to Travellers | 11 |
| The Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India (1555), 'The Preface to the Reader' | 16 | |
| The Scholemaster (1570) | 20 | |
| Prefatory Material to The Principall Navigations (1589, 1598) | 24 | |
| Prefatory Material to Coryats Crudities (1611) | 28 | |
| 'Of Travel' (1612) | 33 | |
| Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes (1625), 'Epistle to the Reader' | 36 | |
| 2 | Europe | 41 |
| The View of France (1604) | 46 | |
| Coryats Crudities (1611), Observations of Venice, Germany, and Switzerland | 52 | |
| Travel Diary (1611-12), Observations of Paris and Florence | 64 | |
| An Itinerary (1617), Observations of Italy and Ireland | 81 | |
| Letter to James I from Venice (1618) | 98 | |
| The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures (1632), Account of his Imprisonment in Spain | 106 | |
| 3 | Africa and the Near East | 117 |
| 'The Voyage Made by M. John Hawkins ... to the coast of Guinea, and the Indies of Nova Hispania' (1564) | 121 | |
| 'The description of the countrey of Russia' (1588) | 127 | |
| The History and Description of Africa, trans. John Pory (1600), Comments on North Africans | 139 | |
| A Relation of a Journey Begun ... 1610 (1615), Observations of the Egyptians and the Jews | 152 | |
| An Itinerary (1617), Observations of the Ottoman Empire | 166 | |
| The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures (1632), 'Comments upon Jerusalem' | 179 | |
| 4 | The Far East and the South Sea Islands | 189 |
| 'The admiral and prosperous voyage of Thomas Cavendish into the South Sea, and from thence round about the circumference of the whole earth' (1586-8), Observations of the South Sea Islanders | 192 | |
| 'A Letter of Father Diego De Pantoia ... written [from] the Court of the King of China' (9 March 1602) | 198 | |
| Two Accounts of his Voyage to the Moluccas (1604-6) | 208 | |
| Two Accounts of Japan: Arthur Hatch (1623) and John Saris (1613) | 219 | |
| The Travels of Peter Mundy in Asia (1628-34), Observations of India | 225 | |
| 5 | The Americas | 235 |
| The Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India (1555), Three Descriptions of American Natives | 240 | |
| A briefe narration of the destruction of the Indies by the Spaniards, trans. M. M. S. (1583) | 250 | |
| 'A true report of the late discoveries ... of the Newfound Lands' (1583) | 256 | |
| A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588, 1590) | 266 | |
| The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596) | 279 | |
| 'Of the Canniballes' (1580), trans. John Florio (1603) | 286 | |
| The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania (1612) | 296 | |
| The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), The Story of Pocahontas | 303 | |
| Guide to Further Reading | 309 | |
| Index | 317 |
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Ryan Meza
reviewed Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630 on June 16, 2015
Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630
Not a great anthology, since all but one or two pieces in it are heavily abridged
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