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Author Pritchard, R. E.

Title Odd Tom Coryate / R E Pritchard.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : The History Press, [2004]
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Summary Thomas Coryate (1576-1617) was one of the great early travellers, opening up Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Holy Land and Mogul India to his amazed - and sometimes disgusted - readers. In 1608 he set out to travel - mostly on foot - through France and Italy to Venice, returning through Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands. His book reporting on what he had seen and experienced, Coryats Crudites, was published in 1611 and was a huge success, providing both useful information and entertainment through the reported encounters and mishaps of the apparently tireless author. Nowadays few people have actually read the work, which stretches to over a million words, but Coryate demands to be known more widely, since he was the person almost single-handedly responsible for the creation of the Grand Tour, that inescapable finishing process which was to mark a rite of passage for the aristocracy and the upper middle classes of Britain for over 150 years. As one modern editor of Coryate has commented: 'the scope, reliability and, not least, the entertainment value of the Crudites give it an assured place among the best in the literature of travel'.
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Subject Coryate, Thomas, approximately 1577-1617. Crudities.
Coryate, Thomas, approximately 1577-1617 -- Travel.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
Travelers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Pritchard, R. E. Odd Tom Coryate. Stroud : Sutton Publishing 2004 0750934166 (OCoLC)57693401
Standard No. 9780752495149
ISBN 9780752495149 (e-pub)
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