8vo. xviii, 583 pp., frontispiece portrait, b/w plates, cloth in d/w, appendix, index, jacket lightly faded and worn round edges, otherwise copy clean inside & in very good condition, Oxford University Press, New York, 1937.

Synopsis

“This book is an account of the relations of England with the Moslem world during the Renaissance. Travellers and stay-at-home readers alike inherited from the Middle Ages a quantity of fantastic notions about the East. After reminding us of some of these fantasies Mr. Chew introduces us to a group of representative travellers and typical readers of their narratives.
The whole concludes with a survey of the many Elizabethan and Jacobean dramas on Mohammedan subjects. There is an abundance of romantic, picturesque and humorous detail. The work is of interest alike to lovers of our older literature and to readers who desire to follow the fortunes of the forerunners of such modern explorers as Burton, Doughty, Colonel Lawrence, and Bertram Thomas”. (Leaf Jacket).