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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973780203321

Autore

Brito Bernardo Gomes de <1688-1760?>

Titolo

The tragic history of the sea, 1589-1622 : narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indianmen Sao Thome (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), Sao Joao Baptista (1622) and the journeys of the survivors in South East Africa / / edited by C.R. B

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge [England], : Published by the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1959

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-01374-3

1-317-01375-1

1-315-55214-0

1-283-12881-0

9786613128812

1-4094-1717-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 194  pages)

Collana

Hakluyt Society

Altri autori (Persone)

BoxerC. R <1904-2000.> (Charles Ralph)

Disciplina

910.452

Soggetti

Shipwrecks

Merchant marine - Portugal

Africa, East Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Narrative of the shipwreck of the great ship Sao Thome, in the land of the Fumos, in the year 1589 / by Diogo do Couto -- Shipwreck of the great ship Santo Alberto, and itinerary of the people, who were save from it, 1593 / by Joao Baptista Lavanha -- Treatise of the misfortune that befell the great ship Sao Joao Baptista, 1622 / by Francisco Vaz d'Almada.

Sommario/riassunto

Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, Jo o Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated from the original editions of accounts which were subsequently included in the Hist 3ria Tr gico-Mar -tima edited by Bernardo Gomes de Brito at Lisbon in 1735-6. The introduction and appendices discuss the 'Carreira da ndia''. For a further selection from



the same source, see Second Series 132. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1959. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the sketch map of 'Figure 1: The Carreira da India, 1589-1622' which faced the first page of the book in the first edition.