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Following the sudden death of his father in 1607, indentured royal servant, Tom Coryate, left his native Britain to explore the vast frontiers of Europe and Asia. Setting sail from Dover, a voyage on which he discovered he was susceptible to motion sickness ('I varnished the exterior parts of the ship with the excremental ebullitions of my tumultuous stomach'), he ventured through the myriad nations of western Europe, and the mysterious deserts of the Middle East, before coming to rest - in more ways than one - in the sweltering, exotic heat of Mughal India. In Odd Tom Coryate R.E. Pritchard presents us with a wonderfully detailed and humorous account of Coryate's epic journey, an adventure on par with that of the famous Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta. This is a biographical study of the highest order, as well as a captivating travelogue unparalleled within its genre. In today's world, where eccentrics are something of a rarity, Pritchard has written a superb narrative about one of history's finest. (Kirkus UK)

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R.E.Pritchard was formerly a lecturer in English at Keele University. He has also edited Poetry by English Women, The Sidney Psalms, Lady Mary Wroth and Dickens's England.

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