The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622: Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Sao Thome (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), Sao Joao Baptista (1622) and the Journeys of the Survivors in South East Africa
The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622: Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Sao Thome (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), Sao Joao Baptista (1622) and the Journeys of the Survivors in South East Africa
Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, Jo???o Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated from the original editions of accounts which were subsequently included in the 'Hist???ria Tr???gico-Mar???tima' edited by Bernardo Gomes de Brito at Lisbon in 1735-6. The introduction and appendices discuss the 'Carreira da ???ndia'. For a further selection from the same source, see Second Series 132. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published ...
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Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, Jo???o Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated from the original editions of accounts which were subsequently included in the 'Hist???ria Tr???gico-Mar???tima' edited by Bernardo Gomes de Brito at Lisbon in 1735-6. The introduction and appendices discuss the 'Carreira da ???ndia'. For a further selection from the same source, see Second Series 132. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1959. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the sketch map of 'Figure 1:The Carreira da India, 1589-1622' which faced the first page of the book in the first edition.
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Add this copy of The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622 to cart. $201.00, new condition, Sold by Media Smart rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hawthorne, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Hakluyt Society.
