The first Englishmen in India : letters and narratives of Sundry Elizabethans
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The first Englishmen in India : letters and narratives of Sundry Elizabethans
Asian Educational Services, 1995
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Reprint of the 1930 ed. (London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.)
Added t.p. at head of title: The Broadway travellers, edited by Sir E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power
"The text ... is that of the 1905 MacLehose edition of "Purchas his pilgrimes"; all the rest of the text is from the 1903 MacLehose edition of Hakluyt" [Principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation]--P. v
Includes index
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Description
This is an account of India by some of the earliest Englishmen who visited her. The scope of this work is between the years 1579 to 1589, during the rule of the Mugal King Akbar. The accounts are in the form of letters written by them to their contact in England. Included in the book are two letters written by Queen Elizabeth to Akbar and to the king of China. Other writers are Stevens (10 November, 1579), Newbery (1583-84) Eldred and Shales (1583-84), Ralph Fitch (1584), Linschoten and Peter Frey (1589). The book has 8 illustrations and 3 maps of: the territory of Goa; fitch's routes between Tripoli's and Hormuz; and, Fitch's Indian voyages and Journeys. This book is a reprint of the 1930 edition.
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