COVER -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- PROLOGUE -- The First Book, with a description of the greater circles and property of the earth -- The Second Book, describing the discoveries of King Afonso V of Portugal -- The Third Book, …
The translation and edition of a Portuguese account of the coasts of Africa and their discovery, written c.1505-1508. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1937.
Containing: (i) 'Richard Hakluyt, by J.A. Williamson, D. Lit.', (ii) 'Samuel Purchas, by Sir William Foster, C.I.E.' (iii) 'English Collections of Voyages and Travels 1625-1846, by G.R. Crone and R.A. Skelton', (iv) 'The Hakluyt Society. A Retrospect 1846-1946, by Sir William Fo…
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Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, João Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated from the original editions of accounts which were subsequently included in the História Trágico-Marítima edited by Bernardo Gomes de…