India in the fifteenth century : being a collection of narratives of voyages to India in the century preceding the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope : from Latin, Persian, Russian and Italian sources, now first translated into Engli

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891.

Hakluyt Society.

Series:

Works issued by the Hakluyt Society.

Works issued by the Hakluyt Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800.

Voyages and travels.

India--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

India.

Physical Description:

1 v. (various pagings).

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume contains the following accounts, edited, with an introduction: Narrative of the voyage of Abd-er-Razzak, Ambassador from Shah Rukh, A.H. 845, A.D. 1442.; The travels of Nicol Conti in the East in the early part of the fifteenth century; The travels of Athanasius Nikitin, a native of Twer; The journey of Hieronimo di Santo Stefano, a Genoese. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1857.

Contents:

chapter NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGE OF ABD-ER-RAZZAK

chapter THE TRAVELS OF NICOLÒ CONTI IN THE EAST IN THE EARLY

chapter THE TRAVELS OF ATHANASIUS NIKITIN

chapter THE JOURNEY OF HIERONIMO DI SANTO STEFANO.

Notes:

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-317-11751-4

1-317-11752-2

1-315-58827-7

1-282-89252-5

9786612892523

1-4094-1527-9

9781315588278

OCLC:

929147176