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 /

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 /

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Author / Creator:	Pinto, Fernão Mendes, -1583
Imprint:	Manchester : Carcanet in association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Discoveries Commission, 1992.
Description:	xxxix, 280 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., 1 facsim., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Aspects of Portugal
Subject:	Pinto, Fernão Mendes, -- -1583 Pinto, Fernão Mendes, -- -1583 Travelers -- Asia -- Biography. Travel. Asia. Early works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1506106

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Other authors / contributors:	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Discoveries Commission.
ISBN:	0856359696 : £18.95
Notes:	Translated from the Portuguese.

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Summary:	"Peregrinacam" from Fernao Mendes Pinto. Aventureiro e explorador portugues (1514-1583).
Item Description:	Translated from the Portuguese.
Physical Description:	xxxix, 280 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., 1 facsim., maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN:	0856359696