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Author Pacheco Pereira, Duarte, -1533.

Title Esmeraldo de situ orbis / by Duarte Pacheco Perira ; edited by George H.T. Kimble
Published Surrey : Ashgate, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 193 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 79
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 79.
Contents Chapter Prologue: The beginning of the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis -- chapter The First Book, with a description of the greater circles and property of the earth -- chapter The Second Book, describing the discoveries of King Afonso V of Portugal -- chapter The Third Book, concerning the discoveries of King John II of Portugal -- chapter The Fourth Book, containing the discoveries of King Manuel of Portugal -- chapter I The Senegal-Niger-Nile controversy -- chapter II "There are other snakes a quarter of a league long -- chapter III The silent Barter -- chapter IV Note on the Map to illustrate the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis
Bibliography "Select bibliography": pages xxxiii-xxxv
Notes English
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Subject Discoveries in geography -- Portuguese
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
Discoveries in geography
Discoveries in geography -- Portuguese
SUBJECT Africa -- Discovery and exploration
Subject Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Kimble, George H. T. (George Herbert Tinley), 1908-2004.
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