George Sandys: Travel, Colonialism and Tolerance in the Seventeenth Century.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

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James Ellison. George Sandys: Travel, Colonialism and Tolerance in the Seventeenth Century. (Studies in Renaissance Literature, Volume 8.) Rochester, N. Y.: D. S. Brewer. 2002. Pp. ix, 286. $85.00. ISBN 0-85991-750-9.

James Ellison's subject is a remarkable but neglected literary, religious, and political figure of the early seventeenth century. George Sandys (1578-1644) was the son of Archbishop Edwin Sandys and the brother of the parliamentary leader Sir Edwin Sandys. His career and writings throw light on the impulse towards religious reconciliation and ...

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