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The tragic history of the sea, 1589-1622 : narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indianmen Sao Thome (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), Sao Joao Baptista (1622) and the journeys of the survivors in South East Africa / edited by C.R. B
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brito, Bernardo Gomes de, 1688-1760?
- Series:
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society.
- Hakluyt Society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shipwrecks.
- Merchant marine--Portugal.
- Merchant marine.
- Africa, East--Description and travel.
- Africa, East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 194 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 3ria 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.
- Contents:
- Narrative of the shipwreck of the great ship Sao Thome, in the land of the Fumos, in the year 1589 / by Diogo do Couto
- Shipwreck of the great ship Santo Alberto, and itinerary of the people, who were save from it, 1593 / by Joao Baptista Lavanha
- Treatise of the misfortune that befell the great ship Sao Joao Baptista, 1622 / by Francisco Vaz d'Almada.
- Notes:
- First published by Ashgate Publishing.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-317-01374-3
- 1-317-01375-1
- 1-315-55214-0
- 1-283-12881-0
- 9786613128812
- 1-4094-1717-4
- OCLC:
- 992235730
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