The book of Duarte Barbosa
Subtitle: an account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants
By: written by Duarte Barbosa and completed about the year 1518 A.D. Translated from the Portuguese text,first published in 1812 A.D., by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon, in Vol. II of its collection of documents regarding the history and geography of the nations beyond the seas, and edited and annotated by Mansel Longworth Dames.
Contributors: Magalhães, Fernão de, d. 1521, supposed author.; Dames, Mansel Longworth, 1850-1922, ed. and tr.
Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2d ser.,; no. 44, 49
Publisher: Printed for the Hakluyt Society
Published: 1918
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; por
Subjects: Africa, East -- Description and travel; Arabian Peninsula -- Description and travel; Iran -- Description and travel; India -- Description and travel; Malabar (India) -- Description and travel; Malay Archipelago -- Description and travel; China -- Description and travel
Notes: Bibliography: v. 1, p. xxv-xxxii; v. 2, p. xix-xxi.
Also attributed to Fernão de Magalhães. Cf. Hakluyt Society. Works, v. 35, pref.; v. 39, "Note to the thirty-fifth publication."
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Including the coasts of East Africa, Arabia, Persia, and western India as far as the kingdom of Vijayanagar.; title: v. 2. Including the coasts of Malabar, eastern India, further India, China, and the Indian archipelago.