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British travel writer and historian William Dalrymple cites Coryat as 'one of my travel-writing heroes' in his first book In Xanadu (1989). [ 12 ] British travel writer and humorist Tim Moore retraced the steps of Coryat's tour of Europe, as recounted in his book Continental Drifter (2000).
The book is an account of a journey undertaken, much of it on foot, in 1608 through France, Italy, Germany, and other European countries. Coryat conceived of the 1,975-mile (3,175 km) voyage to Venice and back in order to write the subsequent travelogue dedicated to Henry, Prince of Wales, at whose court he was regarded as somewhat of a buffoon and jester, rather than the wit and intellectual ...
Thomas Coryat, (c. 1577–1617), English traveller Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels (1611) [1] Pedro Páez, (1564–1622), Spanish jesuit missionary in Ethiopia History of Ethiopia (1620), includes the first account of one of the sources of the Nile River ever written by a European.
A newly released documentary, The Last Tourist, shines a light on the dark side of tourism, and the true cost of taking a trip to some of the most popular travel destinations in the world.
One of the first tourist camps in town was the AA Tourist Camp at 2136 West Seventh St. (west end of the Seventh street bridge), which opened in mid-1927.
A digital detox on the world’s first ‘phone-free’ tourist island. Ellie Seymour. October 11, 2023 at 1:23 PM. Ulko-Tammio, Finland’s first ‘phone-free’ island (Annika Ruohonen)
1602–1607: Bento de Góis, first European to travel overland from India to China. 160?–1611: Robert Coverte comes back from India by foot after his ship runs aground near Surat. 1612–1617: Thomas Coryat travels by foot to India. 1615–1618: Thomas Roe is ambassador to the court at Agra, India of the Mughal emperor Jahangir.
A tourist from Spain was killed by an elephant in Thailand, reports state. Tourist killed, gored by elephant's tusk at Thailand sanctuary while bathing animal: Reports Skip to main content