Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia by Anthony Jenkinson and other Englishmen

Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia by Anthony Jenkinson and other Englishmen
Author: Charles Henry Coote
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317146611

Edited from the manuscript writings of Jenkinson and other agents of the Muscovy Company in the second half of the sixteenth century, and including correspondence between Elizabeth I and Ivan IV, and reports to Cecil and the Council. Continued in First Series 73, with continuous pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1886. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the sketch map showing Anthony Jenkinson's route which appeared on p.44 of the first edition of the work.

The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I

The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I
Author: C. Beem
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2011-04-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230118550

This edited volume brings together a collection of provocative essays examining a number of different facets of Elizabethan foreign affairs, encompassing England and The British Isles, Europe, and the dynamic civilization of Islam. As an entirely domestic queen who never physically left her realm, Elizabeth I cast an inordinately wide shadow in the world around her. The essays is this volume collectively reveal a queen and her kingdom much more connected and integrated into a much wider world than usually discussed in conventional studies of Elizabethan foreign affairs.

Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P

Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2003
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781579584245

Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Literature of Travel and Exploration

Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1425
Release: 2014-05-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135456631

Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and Other Documents illustrative of his Career

The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and Other Documents illustrative of his Career
Author: Clements R. Markham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317025806

Contains the following items, translated with notes and an introduction: Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to a 'magnificent lord' - Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo Pietro F. di Medici - Evidence of Alonzo de Hojeda respecting his voyage of 1499 - Account of the voyage of Hojeda, 1499-1500, by Navarrete - Letter of the Admiral Christopher Columbus to his son - Letter of Vianelo to the Seigneury of Venice - Letter of naturalization in favor of Vespucci - Appointment of Amerigo Vespucci as chief pilot - Chapters from Las Casas, which discuss the statements of Vespucci - Evidence respecting the voyage of Pinzon and Solis - Las Casas on the voyage of Pinzon and Solis; Index. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1894.