Title: The Prester John of the Indies : a true relation of the lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia in 1520 written by Father Francisco Alvares /
Authors: Alvares, Francisco.; Stanley, Henry Edward John Stanley, 1827-1903.; Beckingham, C. F. 1914-; Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton.
Publisher: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press,
Year: 1961
Subjects: Prester John; Prester John (Legendary character); Ethiopia Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Abstract: The translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881; First Series 64), revised and edited with additional material by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford. Follows on from Second Series 114, with which the main pagination is continuous. Chapters 89-142 of Alvares, with the narrative of the return to Portugal, a translation of a seventeenth-century Ethiopian description of Aksum, and accounts of the rock-cut churches at Lalibala and certain other matters.