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Peter Mundy : merchant adventurer / R.E. Pritchard.
LIBRA G460 .P75 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pritchard, R. E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mundy, Peter, active 1600-1667.
- Voyages and travels.
- Travelers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Travelers.
- Travel.
- Great Britain.
- Mundy, Peter, active 1600-1667--Travel--Early works to 1800.
- Mundy, Peter.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2011.
- Summary:
- Peter Mundy was a seventeenth-century merchant trader who spent most of his life travelling the world. Even by the standards of his own day, his journeys to Istanbul, India, China, Danzig (Gdansk), Russia, and the Artic were remarkable. His account of these travels, illustrated with his own lively drawings of the strange people and animals he met, survives in a single manuscript. This edition selection provides a fascinating, vivid account of early modern lives and times in all their barbarity and brilliance. It includes encounters with the Ottoman, Mughal, Chinese and Russian empires. This edition is from the seventeenth-century manuscript of the 'Travels of Peter Mundy' first edited by Sir Richard Carnac in five volumes for the Hakluyt Society, 1905-36. Historians and lovers of travel literature alike will find this extraordinary account of one man's adventures across the globe a compelling read and an invaluable resource.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781851243549
- 1851243542
- OCLC:
- 741407846
- Publisher Number:
- 99946396675
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