Download or read book The Totall Discourse of the Rare Aduentures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Trauayles from Scotland to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe Asia and Africa Together with the Grieuous Tortures He Suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga written by William Lithgow and published by . This book was released on 1632 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Trauayles from Scotland to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe Asia and Africa written by William Lithgow and published by . This book was released on 1632 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Totall Discourse of the Rare Aduentures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Trauayles from Scotland to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe Asia and Africa written by William Lithgow and published by . This book was released on 1632 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travailes from Scotland written by William Lithgow and published by . This book was released on 1640 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures Peregrinations written by William Lithgow and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures Peregrinations: Of Long Nineteene Nineteen Yeares From Scotland to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica William Lithgow was born in Lanark about 1582. The actual date of his birth is uncertain, but he states (page 377) that he was thirty-three in 1615, and in 'The present Surveigh of London' 'past threescore years' in April, 1643. He was the eldest son of James Lithgow, Burgess of Lanark, and Alison Grahame, his wife. He was educated at Lanark Grammar School, and, according to Sir Walter Scott, was 'bred a tailor.' Scott does not, however, give his authority for thisstatement. Lithgow seems to have started his travels at a very early age, having 'a large infusion of the wandering spirit common to his country-men.' He says himself that 'neither ambition, too much curiosity, nor any reputation I ever sought did expose me to such long peregrinations and dangerous adventures past' - but 'that undeserved Dalida wrong.' What this mysterious 'Dalida wrong' was is unknown, but family tradition has it that the four brothers, 'foure blood-shedding wolves, ' of a certain Miss Lockhart, finding their sister with Lithgow, set upon him and cut off hisears, and from this arose his local nickname of '"Cutlugged" or Lugless" Will.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Catalogue of Rare Books written by Ellis (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greece in Early English Travel Writing 1596 1682 written by Efterpi Mitsi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the seventeenth century, a time of growing interest in ancient texts and the Ottoman Empire. Through these early encounters, this book analyzes the travelers’ construction of Greece in the early modern Mediterranean world and shows how travel became a means of collecting and disseminating knowledge about ancient sites. Focusing on the mobility and exchange of people, artifacts, texts, and opinions between the two countries, it argues that the presence of Britons in Greece and of Greeks in England aroused interest not only in Hellenic antiquity, but also in Greece’s contemporary geopolitical role. Exploring myth, perception, and trope with clarity and precision, this book offers new insight into the connections between Greece, the Ottoman Empire, and the West.
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Download or read book Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London written by Jacob Selwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was a surprisingly diverse place, home not just to people from throughout the British Isles but to a significant population of French and Dutch immigrants, to travelers and refugees from beyond Europe's borderlands and, from the 1650s, to a growing Jewish community. Yet although we know much about the population of the capital of early modern England, we know little about how Londoners conceived of the many peoples of their own city. Diversity and Difference in Early Modern London seeks to rectify this, addressing the question of how the inhabitants of the metropolis ordered the heterogeneity around them. Rather than relying upon literary or theatrical representations, this study emphasizes day-to-day practice, drawing upon petitions, government records, guild minute books and taxation disputes along with plays and printed texts. It shows how the people of London defined belonging and exclusion in the course of their daily actions, through such prosaic activities as the making and selling of goods, the collection of taxes and the daily give and take of guild politics. This book demonstrates that encounters with heterogeneity predate either imperial expansion or post-colonial immigration. In doing so it offers a perspective of interest both to scholars of the early modern English metropolis and to historians of race, migration, imperialism and the wider Atlantic world. An empirical examination of civic economics, taxation and occupational politics that asks broader questions about multiculturalism and Englishness, this study speaks not just to the history of immigration in London itself, but to the wider debate about evolving notions of national identity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Download or read book Early Modern Tales of Orient written by Kenneth Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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