His account of his European sojourn, published as Coryats Crudities (1611), has earned Thomas Coryate a place in the history of English literature as an entertaining writer, a coiner of words, an ecce...
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Thomas Coryate, the self-proclaimed "Peregrine of Odcombe" or "Odcombian Leg-stretcher," was renowned in his day first for having toured Europe largely on foot and, afterward, for traveling through th...
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Thomas Coryate