The Suma Oriental of Tomé Pires: An Account of the East, from the Red Sea to Japan, written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515, and The Book of Francisco Rodrigues, Rutter of a Voyage in the Red Sea, Nautical Rules, Almanack and Maps, Written and Drawn in - Hakluyt Society, Second Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

Follows on with continuous main pagination from Second Series 89. Translated by the editor from the Portuguese MS in the Bibliothèque de la Chambre des Deputés, Paris. Book VI of the Suma Oriental, together with a translation of Rodrigues' 'Book', the entire Portuguese texts, and a letter from Pires to King Manuel, 1516. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1944.

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Book information

ISBN:	9781409417491
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	28 Jul 2010
Edition:	1st edition
DEWEY:	915
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	376
Weight:	808g
Height:	240mm
Width:	157mm
Spine width:	29mm