The Prester John of the Indies
Subtitle: a true relation of the lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia in 1520.
By: The translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881) rev. and edited with additional material by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford.
Contributors: Stanley, Henry Edward John Stanley, Baron, 1827-1903.; Beckingham, C. F. 1914-; Huntingford, George Wynn Brereton.; Thomas Leiper Kane Collection (Library of Congress. Hebraic Section)
Series: Hakluyt Society. Works,; 2d ser., no. 114-115; Works issued by the Hakluyt Society,; 2nd ser., no. 114-115.
Publisher: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng; dut
Number of pages: 617
Subjects: Prester John (Legendary character); Ethiopia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: True relation of the lands of the Prester John
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: v. 2, p. 587-593.