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The admirable adventures and strange fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet : an English pirate in sixteenth-century Brazil / [by] Anthony Knivet ; edited by Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá, University of Cambridge

Author
Knivet, Anthony, active 1591-1649
Uniform Title
Admirable adventures and strange fortunes
Additional Titles
Admirable Adventures & Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Additional Creators
Kogut, Vivien
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This is the first critical edition of the original 1625 travel account by Anthony Knivet, an Englishman who spent nine years in Brazil in the last decade of the sixteenth century. His is the oldest extensive account of Brazil written by an Englishman, but despite its historical, geographical, and ethnographic relevance it has never merited an annotated (or even a separate) edition in English. This edition, which includes a detailed introduction and extensive notes, allows the English-speaking public to follow Knivet's compelling tale. The account describes Knivet's incredible adventures, experienced roughly between 1592 and 1601, which include working as a drudge for the governor of Rio de Janeiro, escaping into the hinterland to live with native tribes and joining in expeditions of conquest and gold-seeking. The story provides a unique insight into early colonial Brazil and the myriad of people occupying its territory: Portuguese settlers, mixed-race servants, Indians, slaves, and European travellers.
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9781316117385 (ebook)
9781107090910 (hardback)
9781107463004 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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