This volume of five essays and a critical introduction present recent interpretations of travelers and their narratives in the early modern world, with particular attention to the relationship between the act of travel and descriptions of it.

Peter C. Mancall, Ph.D. (1986) in History, Harvard University, is Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and the Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. His books include Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology (Oxford, 2006) and Hakluyt's Promise (Yale, 2007).