The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil

ISBN-13: 9781107090910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 238 str.

Anthony Knivet;Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá (University of Cambridge)

Opis

This is the first comprehensive, annotated edition in English of Anthony Knivet's 1625 travel account.

Recenzje

'An essential text for understanding colonial Brazil, and early modern travel writing more generally, Knivet's astonishing account is now finally accessible to experts and newcomers in a scholarly edition worthy of the original's importance.' Hal Langfur, author of The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil's Eastern Indians, 1750–1830

Spis treści

Introduction; The admirable adventures and strange fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet, which went with Master Thomas Candish in his second voyage to the South Sea, 1591; Appendixes; Selected bibliography; Note on the text.