Schleck, Julia. Telling true tales of Islamic lands : forms of mediation in English travel writing, 1575-1630

Folger bibliographic ID: 247084
Folger call number: PR756.T72 S35 2011
Folger holdings ID: 318624

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Waste and empire : George Sandys' relation of a journey begun in 1610 and the successful gentleman traveler -- "The robe of truth" : fabricating credit from the Sherley Brothers' travels to Persia and the Ottoman Empire -- True news from the islamic world -- Turks and their paratexts: the captivity of Thomas Saunders and the ideology of form -- Determining the facts of the matter : merchant letters and the principall navigations -- Postscript

Extended title: Telling true tales of Islamic lands : forms of mediation in English travel writing, 1575-1630 / Julia Schleck

Travelers' writings, English English prose literature British Islam in literature Cultural relations in literature

author: Schleck, Julia, 1976-