The travels of Mendes Pinto
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The travels of Mendes Pinto
University of Chicago Press, 1989
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Translation of the facsim. of the 1614 ed. published by the Tenri Central Library, 1973
Maps on lining papers
Bibliography: p. 655-663
Includes index
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内容説明
This text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portugese explorer Fernao Mendes Pinto, came second only to Marco Polo's work in exciting Europe's imagination of the Orient. Chronicling adventures from Ethiopia to Japan, Travels covers twenty years of Mendes Pinto's odyssey as a soldier, a merchant, a diplomat, a slave, a pirate, and a missionary, and continues to overwhelm questions about its source with the sheer enjoyment of its narrative.
"[T]here is plenty here for the modern reader. . . . The vivid descriptions of swashbuckling military campaigns and exotic locations make this a great adventure story. . . . Mendes Pinto may have been a sensitive eyewitness, or a great liar, or a brilliant satirist, but he was certainly more than a simple storyteller."--Stuart Schwartz, The New York Times
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