The Peregrination of Fernao 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
[book]
/ abridged and translated by Michael Lowery; Introduced by Luis Rebelo
Manchester
: Carcanet in association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Discoveries Commission, Lisbon, Carcanet [u.a.]
، 1992
xxxix, 280 p
Aspects of Portugal
Other Titles: Peregrinacam de Fernam Mendez Pinto Translated from the Portuguese M. Lowery