On the 4th of July 1596, somewhere outside is Kendra, and finds Morrison lost his 27-year-old

younger brother Henry. The brothers had travelled to Jerusalem risking their lives by attempting

to cross the desert while weak with illness. The devastation of Henry's death rendered

finds desperately sick himself, but he recovered, and 20 years later he sat down to write an

account of his grief, his travels and his travails, which he called his itinerary. Today's

podcast explores the world of early modern travelers, their encounters with foreign

worlds and peoples, and what their experience of travel made them learn about themselves.

For when they wrote about it, we get to learn about their worlds and feelings too.

My season guide is Dr. Eva Johanna Holmberg. Hannah holds an Academy Research Fellowship at

Helsinki University and has spent her career working on travel writing and cultural encounters.

Her first book was Duse in the Early Modern Imagination, and she edited a recent issue

of the journal Renaissance Studies all about the Renaissance and early modern travel.

She's currently writing British Encounters with Ottoman minorities in the early 17th century

and she tweets as at Eva Johanna H.

Hannah, thank you for joining me today. Your work is fascinating in its focus on travel writing

and on cultural encounters, and you've especially worked recently on tales of people traveling

to the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries. And what we can learn about their lives and

experiences, and today we're going to focus on one in particular, Finds Morrison, tell us about him

and his story. Well, Finds Morrison is probably not the most well-known of early modern English

travelers, like we first think of somewhat like France's Drake or the Great Travel Writing Collections,

like Richard Hackloud's Principle Navigations, and all the usual suspects that come to mind when

you think of travel and exploration and things like that. Morrison was more of a scholar, perhaps

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