This text examines European travel writing from 1500 to 1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. By focusing not on European discovery of the Americas but on voyages to the East, the essays allow the voices of marginalized travellers to speak.

This text examines European travel writing from 1500 to 1800, with an emphasis on travel to the East Indies, Africa, and the Levant. The importance of travel literature has grown in the humanities as scholars plumb such texts for their insights on colonialism, the other, and nation. By focusing not on European discovery of the Americas but on voyages to the East, the essays allow the voices of marginalized travellers to speak through history.

Vilifying and domesticating the other - tales of exploitation from the Dutch East India Company, I. Kamps
cultural translation or fact? - the ideological formation of Edward Terry's "Voyage to East India", J.G. Singh
trafficking with the Turks - English travelers in the Ottoman Empire during the early 17th century, D. Vitkus
back to the future - prophetic history in Camoes, S. Raman
what the Russian saw - a Russian traveling artist's native (Bengali) theater in colonial Calcutta, 1795, S. Chatterjee
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish embassy letters, R. Chung
Shakespeare circumnavigates Africa - 1607-1608, G. Taylor
English Turks and resistant travelers - conversion to Islam as homosocial courtship, M. Fuller
Leo Africanus, geographer and traveler, O.Zhiri.