India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India in the Century Preceding the Portuguese Discovery of the Cape of ... Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian Sources - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 110800816X ISBN 13: 9781108008167

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1857 volume is a compilation, edited by R. H. Major of the British Museum, of narratives of journeys to India 'in the century preceding the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope; from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian sources'. India was regarded as a fabled source of riches even before the time of Alexander the Great, and Major's introduction surveys the surviving accounts of overland journeys there before the fifteenth century, assessing their validity and where possible matching ancient to modern place names.

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The Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1857 volume is a compilation of narratives of journeys to India 'in the century preceding the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope; from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian sources'.

Contenuti:

Editor's preface; Introduction; Narrative of the journey of Abd-er-Razzak; The travels of Nicolo Conti; The travels of Athanasius Nikiton; The journey of Hieronimo di Santo Stephano; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 110800816X
• ISBN 13: 9781108008167
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Redattore: Major Richard Henry