peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto
Subtitle: soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador, during twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, Cochin-China, East Indies, China, Japan. Sailing unchartered 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
By: abridged and translated by Michael Lowery ; introduced by Luʹis Sousa Rebelo ; and furnished with illustrations.
Contributors: Lowery, Michael.; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.; Discoveries Commission.
Series: Aspects of Portugal
Publisher: Carcanet in association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Discoveries Commission
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Pinto, Fernao Mendes, d. 1583 -- Travel -- Asia; Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Translated from the Portuguese.