Travel Knowledge: European Discoveries in the Early Modern Period

by Ivo Kamps and J. Singh

Book Overview

Travel Knowledge examines European travel writing from 1500-1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. The importance of travel literature has grown in the humanities as scholars plumb such texts for their insights on colonialism, the other, and the nation, but this is one of the first volumes on European travel in the early modern period. The essays further distinguish themselves by focusing not on the European discovery...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312222998
• ISBN13: 9780312222994
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"