"A Long, Troublesome, and Dangerous Passage" from England to India

The following exhibition catalogues chaplain Edward Terry's voyage from England to India in the 17th century. It does not document every encounter on his journey, but instead highlights a number of encounters that give readers a glimpse into the life and times of a 17th-century Englishman. The entire journey of Edward Terry can be found in A voyage to East-India: Wherein some things are taken notice of in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogol. Mix't with some parallel observations and inferences upon the storie, to profit as well as delight the reader, located in the James Ford Bell Library, item number: 1655 Te

*We are located on Mnisóta Makhóčhe, the traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of the Dakhóta Oyáte. The University Libraries acknowledges that the United States government failed to uphold the 1805, 1837, and 1851 treaties with the Dakhóta nation, which made possible the founding of our university through the Morrill Land Grant Act.

The James Ford Bell Library, through its exhibitions in the Bell Room Gallery, and through the management of its collection, is dedicated to giving voice to and sharing the stories of those who were marginalized, oppressed, enslaved, and underrepresented within the premodern narratives in our collection.