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Portuguese Voyages, 1498-1663. Tales from the Great Age of Discovery

Door C.D. Ley

Categorie
Ontdekkingsreizen & Expedities
Boeknummer
#408753-XT16
Titel
Portuguese Voyages, 1498-1663. Tales from the Great Age of Discovery
Auteur
Ley, C.D. (edited by)
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Phoenix Press
Jaar van uitgave
2000
ISBN10
184212109X
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Drawing from contemporary accounts, thus giving the human record, this is the story of the great Portuguese Age of Discovery. The volume contains seven pieces, themselves extracts from contemporary works and covers the opening of the ocean routes, the conquest of Brazil and the spread of Christianity. The seven texts are: The Route to India 1497-8 from Vasco da Gama's First Voyage ; The Discovery of Brazil 1500; The Lands of Prester John 1520-6; The Furthest East, 1537-8 from The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendes Pinto ; The Tragic History of the Sea 1552 and 1585; The Jesuits in Abyssinia from A Voyage to Abyssinia ; and Overland Return from India , 1663.
Pagina's
360
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 9,00

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