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Esmeraldo de situ orbis / by Duarte Pacheco Perira; edited by George H.T. Kimble.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pacheco Pereira, Duarte, -1533.
- Series:
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 79.
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 79
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Discoveries in geography--Portuguese.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Africa--Discovery and exploration.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 193 p. : ill., maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey : Ashgate, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The translation and edition of a Portuguese account of the coasts of Africa and their discovery, written c.1505-1508. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1937.
- Contents:
- chapter Prologue: The beginning of the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis
- chapter The First Book, with a description of the greater circles and property of the earth
- chapter The Second Book, describing the discoveries of King Afonso V of Portugal
- chapter The Third Book, concerning the discoveries of King John II of Portugal
- chapter The Fourth Book, containing the discoveries of King Manuel of Portugal
- chapter I The Senegal-Niger-Nile controversy
- chapter II “There are other snakes a quarter of a league long
- chapter III The silent Barter
- chapter IV Note on the Map to illustrate the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis.
- Notes:
- First published by Ashgate Pub.
- Reprinted from the 1937 edition.
- "Select bibliography": p. [xxxiii]-xxxv.
- ISBN:
- 1-317-14166-0
- 1-317-14167-9
- 1-315-58022-5
- 1-283-09005-8
- 9786613090058
- 1-4094-1685-2
- 9781315580227
- OCLC:
- 873021250
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