Navigating Knowledge across the Sixteenth-Century World
by
Michael Wintroub
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
The Voyage of Thought is a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French ship captain, merchant, and poet, Jean Parmentier, from Dieppe to Sumatra in 1529. In tracing the itinerary of this voyage, Michael Wintroub examines...