Old Worlds: Egypt, Southwest Asia, India, and Russia in Early Modern English WritingAlthough much attention has been paid to early modern European travel to the New World, attention is just beginning to be paid to the travels in the Old World, even though they speak to contemporary concerns with categories like civilization, race, and nation as much as, sometimes more than, the New World explorations. This book aligns travel narratives and historical surveys of parts of the Old World Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Russia with texts