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The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles / from Scotland to the most famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica

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By William Lithgow
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A seasoned traveller recounts nineteen years of voyages through Europe, Asia, and Africa, offering descriptive accounts of cities, landscapes, peoples, and the laws, religions, and political arrangements he encountered. Organized in three books and ten divisions, the narrative mixes practical travel notes, ethnographic observation, and personal memoir, including harrowing episodes of imprisonment, torture, and legal redress suffered in Spain and subsequent appeals at court. Episodes of adventure, danger, and local custom are balanced with reflections on governance, religion, and social practice, producing a compendium of early modern travel observations and personal experience intended as both guide and testimony.

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Scans of this book are available from the Internet Archive (copy 1, 2, 3). Scans of the 1640 edition of this work are also available; while the missing illustration on page 128 is most likely the one found in The pilgrimes farewell from 1618.

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Title: The totall discourse of the rare adventures & painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travayles from Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica
Author: William Lithgow (1582–1645?) Info
Language: English
Original publication date: 1906
Keywords: Voyages and travels

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In the original, marginal notes appear in the outer margin of the page (i.e. in the right margin of odd numbered pages, and the left margin of even numbered pages). In this edition, notes indicating original page numbers have been marked as right-margin notes, and notes indicating a paragraph’s subject have been marked as left-margin notes.

End-of-line hyphenation has been silently restored, following the the text itself as guidance where possible.

Likely printer’s errors have been corrected and marked as such. The irregular 17th century spelling has not been changed otherwise from how it appears in the 1906 edition of this work.

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320 Bridegroeme Bridegroome 1
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437 combustions combustious 1
442 Bethelem Bethlehem 2
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444 [Not in source] 75, 82 6
445 [Not in source] 391 3