The Elizabethan Image of Africa

Download or read book The Elizabethan Image of Africa written by Eldred D. Jones and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the middle of the sixteenth century, the English derived their ideas of Africa from the Bible and the classical historians. These ancient sources continued to be sited long after English marines had visited Africa but had published accounts of their voyages. These accounts, however, could confuse the true picture since they appeared on the same pages as the legendary accounts of monsters and strange beings that peopled the pages of the classical historians. The sixteenth century reader might have found it difficult to separate the true from the imaginary. This book exploers the view of Africa from Elizabethan England.