John Anthony Butler holds an MA from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He has taught at the university level in Canada, Nigeria and Japan, and has published several books on seventeenth-century subjects, including a biography of Richard Cromwell and a translation of Lord Herbert of Chirbury”s De religione gentilium, as well as editions of Sir Thomas Herbert”s Travels and Sir Paul Rycaut”s Present State of the Ottoman Empire. His latest book is an edition of John Greaves”s Pyramidographia (2018), and he has also published a book of essays on little-known travel-writers, Off the Beaten Track (2017).
4 Ebooks by John Anthony Butler
John Anthony Butler: Sir Jerome Horsey’s Travels and Adventures in Russia and Eastern Europe
This volume details Sir Jerome Horsey’s account of his experiences in Russia and other countries. Horsey, who spent the better part of seventeen years in the country until leaving in 1591, was an …
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€112.71
John Anthony Butler: John Greaves, Pyramidographia and Other Writings, with Birch’s Life of John Greaves
This is a modern-spelling edition of John Greaves’s Pyramidographia (1646), together with some miscellaneous travel-writings, letters and a biography of Greaves by Thomas Birch. It includes a full …
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€116.92
Sue Matheson: Horizons North
A frontier place, Canada’s North is an interface in which competing educational, historical, and cultural paradigms collide, intersect, and coalesce. The unique nature of this Northern mosaic rests …
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€81.28
John Anthony Butler: Essays on Unfamiliar Travel-Writing
This book comprises a number of essays on travel-narratives which are somewhat unknown to the general reader. They include writing by people who travelled from the East to the West, as well as those …
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€95.80
