This book comprises a number of essays on travel-narratives which are somewhat unknown to the general reader. They include writing by people who travelled from the East to the West, as well as those going the usual way. The travellers include a seventeenth-century accountant, a Persian shah, an Indian rajah and a Hawaiian king, as well as an Irish doctor, an American journalist and a Japanese poet. The book presents these travellers in an informal manner, although there are discussions about identity, otherness and stereotyping as they are displayed in the narratives. The book will appeal to students and academics, as well as the general reader.
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Format: Hardback
Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 16 Dec 2016
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781443831697
About John Anthony ButlerJohn Butler
John Butler received an MA from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Manitoba Canada and has taught at various universities in Canada Japan and Nigeria. He has written biographies of Richard Cromwell and Lord Herbert of Chirbury and edited a number of seventeenth-century texts including Sir Thomas Herbert''s Travels in Africa Persia and Asia the Great (2012) and Sir Paul Rycaut''s Present State of the Ottoman Empire (2017). He has also co-edited (with Sue Matheson) two collections The Fictional North (2012) and Horizons North (2013). A former Associate Professor of English and Senior Scholar at the University College of the North Canada Dr Butler retired in 2015.