Constructing the Traveller: Stance and Instruction in an Early Modern English Travel Advice Text

This work presents a critical edition of Profitable Instructions (1633), an Early Modern English manual of advice for travellers. It also includes a codicological and linguistic description of the 1633 printing and contextualises the text within travel writing and the prescriptive ars apodemica tradition that frames travel as methodical observation and information-gathering in an era of colonial and commercial expansion. On this