The grand peregrination,: Being the life and adventures of Fernao Mendes Pinto
by Maurice Collis
Category: Biography & Autobiography

First published in 1949, this classic biography of Fernao Mendes Pinto, one of the greatest adventurers after Marco Polo, was unavailable for years. Maurice Collis (1889-1973) spent more than twenty years as a British civil servant in Burma. He was a noted scholar and travel writer.