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The Long Strider: How Thomas Coryate Walked from England to India in the Year 1613 - Hardcover

Moraes, Dom

 
9780670049752: The Long Strider: How Thomas Coryate Walked from England to India in the Year 1613

Synopsis

Description and travel of India by the authors interweaving the travel impressions of Englishman, Thomas Coryate, ca. 1577-1617.

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Synopsis

In the early 17th century, Thomas Coryate, an eccentric englishman, a writer and a wanderer, decided to walk from his village of Odeombe in Somerset to the Indies, to the court of the Mogul Jehangir, and onwards to China. He wanted to be the first man to write about these distant lands. This booki s the narrative about Coyate's quest.

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