The relationship between travel and translation might seem obvious at first, but to study it in earnest is to discover that it is at once intriguing and elusive. Of course, travellers translate in order to make sense of their new surroundings; sometimes they must translate in order to put food on the table. The relationship between these two human compulsions, however, goes much deeper than this. What gets translated, it seems, is not merely the written or spoken word, but the very identity of the traveler. The 17 essays in this voume, which treat not only well-known figures like Martin Luther, Erasmus, Shakespeare and Milton, but also such lesser known figures like Konrad Gutenberg, Leo Africanus and Garcilaso de la Vega - constitute the first survey of how this relationship manifests itself in the early modern period. At such, it should be of interest both to scholars who are studying theories of translation and to those who are studying "hodoeporics", or travel and the literature of travel.