Discoveries of the World: From their First Original Unto the Year of our Lord 1555 (Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series) - Couverture souple

Galvano, Ant\xf3nio

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108010423 ISBN 13 : 9781108010429

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This 1862 volume from the Hakluyt Society contains a sixteenth-century Portuguese history of exploration from 'the Flood' to 1555.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume, published in 1862, contains a sixteenth-century Portuguese text first published in translation by Hakluyt himself in 1601; both the original Portuguese and a modified version of Hakluyt's translation are given on each page. The author, António Galvano (1503–1557), distinguished himself as Governor of the Moluccas, but fell out of favour on his return to Portugal and died in poverty. His book traces the history of exploration from 'the time of the Flood' to 1555.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108010423
• ISBN 13: 9781108010429
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Éditeur: Bethune C. R. Drinkwater
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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