Suma Oriental of Tome Pires - An Account of East, From Red Sea to Japan, Written in Malacca India

Translated from the Portuguese MS in the Bibliotheque de la Chambre des Deputes, Paris. Containing the translated Books I-V of the Suma Oriental. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 90) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1944.

List of contents

Contents: Foreword; Introduction; The Suma Oriental of Tomé Pires: Preface; Books 1-5.

About the author

Armando Cortesão

Summary

Translated from the Portuguese MS in the Bibliothèque de la Chambre des Deputés, Paris. Containing the translated Books I-V of the Suma Oriental. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 90) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1944.

Product details

• Authors: Armando Cortesao, Armando Cortesão
• Assisted by: Armando Cortesão (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.2010
• EAN: 9781409414568
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-1456-8
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 159 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Hakluyt Society; Hakluyt Society, Second Series; Hakluyt Society, Second Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / General, military history, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, maritime history, General & world history, Literary studies: general, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History and Archaeology