The peregrination of Fernao Mendes Pinto /
this tale has been abridged and translated by Michael Lowery ; introduced by Luís Sousa Rebelo.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Manchester [England] : Carcanet, 1992.
- Edition
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[abridged ed.]
- Note
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Subtitle: "Soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador, during twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, Chochin-China, East Indies, China, Japan. Sailing uncharted 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."
- Physical Description
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xxxix, 280 p. :
ill. (some col.) ;
25 cm.
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