The Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations of William Lithgow

First gathered in full in 1632, this travel narrative recounts William Lithgow's claimed nineteen years of walking through Europe, the Ottoman lands, North Africa, and the Holy Land. He describes cities, churches, and inns, records Protestant hostility to Rome and Islam, and dwells on his arrest and torture by the Inquisition at Malaga. Earlier stretches cover Germany, Italy, Greece, and Egypt; later pages turn to Ireland and Spain. The book is a first-person account of roads and misfortunes, not a tourist handbook and not a novel of a fictional Scot.

Bound in dark green buckram with a cover and spine design in yellow and gold. Yellow slipcase.