William Lithgow (traveller and author)

William Lithgow (* 1582 or 1583in Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, † 1645) was a Scottish traveler, author and an alleged spy who wants to have traveled about 36,000 miles on foot by his own account at the end of his countless trips.

Even before 1610 he visited Shetland, Switzerland and Bohemia, on March 9, 1609, he broke from Paris to Italy to Palestine and Egypt. His next journey took him from 1614 to 1616 to Tunis and Morocco to Fes, his last from 1619 to 1621 after Spain ended with his arrest in Malaga and torture, first as a spy, then by the Inquisition. With the support of residents in Málaga countrymen he could return to England. In a long, funded by the British royal family stay in Bath he could have suffered torture at the injury largely cure, directed against the Spanish Ambassador El Marqués de Espinar claim for financial compensation of the pains suffered, however, remained unsuccessful. His travels he described in the book Rare Adventures and Paineful Peregrinations, beyond the works of The Siege of Breda, The Siege of Newcastle and Poems by which it is affiliated.

Works

• Rare Adventures and Paineful Peregrinations, 1614 Roger Willemsen (Eds. ), Georg Deggerich ( translation ), Papan (illustration): German edition as The wondrous wanderings of William Lithgow. mare Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86648-112-1. published and read by Roger Willemsen, Lubbe Audio, Cologne 2009, 2 CDs as an audio book