num_pages: 450
description: The Peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto, soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador. During twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, 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.
language: English
title: The Peregrination of Fernao Mendes Pinto
titlecomplete: The Peregrination of Fernao Mendes Pinto (Aspects of Portugal)
genres: China, Classics, Portugal, History, Asia, Nonfiction, Travel, 17th Century, Adventure, Portuguese Literature
ratings_count: 324
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Prémio D. João de Castro da Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Premi de Traducció Vidal Alcover
category:  Gabriel de la S.T. Sampol
publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd