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Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis, by Duarte Pacheco Pereira.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Hakluyt Society, Second SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Hakluyt Society, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781409416852
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis, by Duarte Pacheco PereiraDDC classification:
  • 960
LOC classification:
  • G282 -- .P33 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Select Bibliography -- Prologue: The beginning of the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis -- 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, concerning the discoveries of King John II of Portugal -- The Fourth Book, containing the discoveries of King Manuel of Portugal -- Appendices -- I The Senegal-Niger-Nile controversy -- II "There are other snakes a quarter of a league long -- III The silent Barter -- IV Note on the Map to illustrate the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Select Bibliography -- Prologue: The beginning of the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis -- 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, concerning the discoveries of King John II of Portugal -- The Fourth Book, containing the discoveries of King Manuel of Portugal -- Appendices -- I The Senegal-Niger-Nile controversy -- II "There are other snakes a quarter of a league long -- III The silent Barter -- IV Note on the Map to illustrate the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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