An Intrepid Scot

Zusatztext '... highly entertaining...' Times Literary Supplement 'A welcome reassessment of one of the earliest and quirkiest careers in travel literature! and of a man with much extraordinary insight to offer amid the bile.' The Scotsman '... an attractive and valuable book.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 'The text is clearly written and well-organized. It carefully reconstructs the fascinating story of Lithgow's peregrinations! and the scholarly apparatus that supplements this story will be of great help to readers interested in Lithgow and in crosscultural texts from early modern Britain.' Renaissance Quarterly 'It is to Bosworth's credit that in this informative and well-crafted volume he charts this intricate world with assurance and authority.' Journal of British Studies 'Clifford Bosworth's study of the writings of the Scottish traveller William Lithgow constitutes an extremely useful addition to the recent corpus of scholarship focused on the relationship between East and West in the early modern era. ... An Intrepid Scot is written with admirable clarity! while retaining the necessary detail and depth of scholarship to do justice to the subject mater and should be of great interest to anyone engaged in the study of early modern interactions between east and west.' Studies in Travel Writing Informationen zum Autor C. Edmund Bosworth is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester, UK. Klappentext 'An Intrepid Scot' makes an important new contribution to the growing literature on the perceptions of the Islamic world and the 'Orient' in early modern Europe, at the same time as illuminating the attitudes of a Protestant from Northern Europe towards the Catholic South. In addition to the entertainment of the travel narrative, the book shows how one Westerner of the time interpreted the alien East for his readers, and how the Ottoman Empire and its apparently unstoppable might both fascinated and struck fear into the hearts of those outside it. Zusammenfassung Looks at the life and career of William Lithgow, a tough and opinionated Scots Protestant, who had a seemingly insatiable Wanderlust and who managed to survive various misadventures and near-death experiences in the course of his travels. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Introduction; Prologue to peregrinations: the Scottish setting and Lithgow's early life; The first journey, 1609-12; The second journey, 1613-16; The abortive third journey to the East, 1619-21, and Lithgow's later years; Appendix; Bibliography; Index....

Autorentext

C. Edmund Bosworth is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester, UK.

Klappentext

'An Intrepid Scot' makes an important new contribution to the growing literature on the perceptions of the Islamic world and the 'Orient' in early modern Europe, at the same time as illuminating the attitudes of a Protestant from Northern Europe towards the Catholic South. In addition to the entertainment of the travel narrative, the book shows how one Westerner of the time interpreted the alien East for his readers, and how the Ottoman Empire and its apparently unstoppable might both fascinated and struck fear into the hearts of those outside it.

Zusammenfassung
Looks at the life and career of William Lithgow, a tough and opinionated Scots Protestant, who had a seemingly insatiable Wanderlust and who managed to survive various misadventures and near-death experiences in the course of his travels.

Inhalt

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Prologue to peregrinations: the Scottish setting and Lithgow's early life; The first journey, 1609-12; The second journey, 1613-16; The abortive third journey to the East, 1619-21, and Lithgow's later years; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.