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Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200059718

Autore

Pinto, Fernao Mendes

Titolo

The peregrination of Fernao Mendes Pinto : Soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador, during twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, Cochin-China, East Indies, China, Japan, Sailing uncharted oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, thirteen times captured, sixteen times enslaved, he met a saint, repented his ways, returned home and wrote his story for his children and for posterity / Fernao Pinto Mendes ; This tale has been abridged and translated by Michael Lowery ; introduced by Luis Sousa Rebelo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; : Lisbon ; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Discoveries Commission, 1992, : Carcanet

Descrizione fisica

XXXIX, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia