Title: Preste Ioam das Indias
Subtitle: a true relation of the lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia in 1520.
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.
Subjects: Description and travel, Early works to 1800, Prester John (Legendary character), Foreign relations, Sources, Travel, History, Social life and customs
Places: Ethiopia, Portugal
People: Prester John, Francisco Alvares