Description: "THE VOYAGE OF PERDO ALVARESCABRAL TO BRAZIL & INDIA, FROM CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS AND NARRATIVES." TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY WILLIAM BROOKS GREENLEE. SECOND SERIES, VOLUME 81. CABRAL'S FLEET, UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL, SET OFF FROM NEAR LISBON IN 1500. IT WHEN FROM GUINEA TO THE CANARIES AND THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS. IT SAILED ALONG THE COAST OF BRAZIL, NEVER BEFORE VISITED BY EUROPEAN SHIPS. AFTER LANDING AND TRADING WITH THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, AND A SHIP BEING SENT BACK TO PORTUGAL TO REPORT THE DISCOVERY TO THE KING, THE FLEET HEADED FOR THE AFRICAN COAST. FROM MOZAMBIQUE THE FLEET SAILED TO CALICUT, IN MODERN KERALA, INDIA, WHERE AN ATTACK BY ARAB TRADERS ON THEIR DEPOT LED TO BLOODY REPRISALS. 69 PAGE INTRODUCTION. 228 PAGES. 4 FOLD-OUT MAPS IN REAR POCKET (ONE MORE THAN CALLED FOR!?). 6 ILLUSTRATIONS, 3 FOLD -OUT. 8 PAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF A VERY RARE BOOK. NO COPIES FOR SALE ON THE INTERNET. I SHALL BE LISTING MANY MORE VINTAGE HAKLUYT SOCIETY VOLUMES SHORTLY. POSTAGE IN UK: £2.50. I AM THINNING MY LIBRARY OWING TO LACK OF SPACE AND WILL BE POSTING MANY BOOKS IN THE COMING MONTHS. 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK. SECURE, RECYCLED PACKAGING.
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardback
Personalised: No
Place of Publication: UK.
Non-Fiction Subject: VOYAGE TO BRAZIL & INDIA IN 1500.
Shape: Rectangle
Signed: No
Publisher: HAKLUYT SOCIETY
Modified Item: No
Year Printed: 1938
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: BRAZIL, INDIA.
Author: WILLIAM BROOKS GREENLEE (ED.)
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
