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The peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto : soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador, during twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, Cochin-China, East Indies, China, Japan. Sailing unchartered oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, thirteen times captured, sixteen times enslaved. He met a saint, repented his ways, returned home and wrote his story for his children and for posterity / abridged and translated by Michael Lowery ; introduced by Luʹis Rebelo.

Title: The peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto : soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador, during twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, Cochin-China, East Indies, China, Japan. Sailing unchartered oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, thirteen times captured, sixteen times enslaved. He met a saint, repented his ways, returned home and wrote his story for his children and for posterity / abridged and translated by Michael Lowery ; introduced by Luʹis Rebelo.
Author: Pinto, Fernão Mendes, -1583.
Publication: Manchester : Carcanet in association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Discoveries Commission, 1992.

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xxxix, 280 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., 1 facsim., maps; 25 cm.

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Aspects of Portugal

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Aspects of Portugal.

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Early works

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0856359696 :

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gb^93002911^

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