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Tables of Contents for Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
x
Abbreviations
xi
Chronology
xii
Note on the Texts
xiv
General Introduction
1
10
Motives for Travel and Instructions to Travellers
11
30
Introduction
11
5
The Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India (1555), `The Preface to the Reader'
16
4
Richard Eden
The Scholemaster (1570)
20
4
Roger Ascham
Prefatory Material to The Principall Navigations (1589, 1598)
24
4
Richard Hakluyt
Prefatory Material to Coryats Crudities (1611)
28
5
Thomas Coryat
`Of Travel' (1612)
33
3
Francis Bacon
Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes (1625), `Epistle to the Reader'
36
5
Samuel Purchas
Europe
41
76
Introduction
41
5
The View of France (1604)
46
6
Sir Robert Dallington
Coryats Crudities (1611), Observations of Venice, Germany, and Switzerland
52
12
Thomas Coryat
Travel Diary (1611-12), Observations of Paris and Florence
64
17
Sir Charles Somerset
An Itinerary (1617), Observations of Italy and Ireland
81
17
Fynes Moryson
Letter to James I from Venice (1618)
98
8
Sir Henry Wotton
The Totall Disscourse of The Rare Adventures (1632), Account of his Imprisonment in Spain
106
11
William Lithgow
Africa and the Near East
117
72
Introduction
117
4
`The Voyage Made by M. John Hawkins...to the coast of Guinea, and the Indies of Nova Hispania' (1564)
121
6
`The description of the countrey of Russia' (1588)
127
12
Giles Fletcher
The History and Description of Africa, Trans. John Pory (1600), Comments on North Africans
139
13
John Leo
A Relation of a Journey Begun...1610 (1615), Observations of the Egyptians and the Jews
152
14
George Sandys
An Itinerary (1617), Observations of the Ottoman Empire
166
13
Fynes Moryson
The Totall Discourse of The Rare Adventures (1632), `Comments upon Jerusalem'
179
10
William Lithgow
The Far East and the South Sea Islands
189
46
Introduction
189
3
`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
6
Francis Petty
`A Letter of Father Diego De Pantoia...written [from] the Court of the King of China' (9 March 1602)
198
10
Two Accounts of his Voyage to the Moluccas (1604-6)
208
11
Sir Henry Middleton
Two Accounts of Japan: Arthur Hatch (1623) and John Saris (1613)
219
6
The Travels of Peter Mundy in Asia (1628-34), Observations of India
225
10
The Americans
235
74
Introduction
235
5
The Decades of the Newe Worlde, or West India (1555), Three Descriptions of American Natives
240
10
Richard Eden
A briefe narration of the destruction of the Indies by the Spaniards, trans. M.M.S. (1583)
250
6
Bartolome de Las Casas
`A true report of the late discoveries...of the Newfound Lands' (1583)
256
10
Sir George Peckham
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588, 1590)
266
13
Thomas Harriot
The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596)
279
7
Sir Walter Raleigh
`Of the Canniballes' (1580), trans. John Florio (1603)
286
10
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania (1612)
296
7
William Strachey
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), The Story of Pocahontas
303
6
Captain John Smith
Guide to Further Reading
309
8
Index
317