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Author Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.

Title The history and description of Africa and of the notable things therein contained. Volume I / written by al-Hassan ibn Mohammed al-Wezaz al-Fasi, a Moor, baptized as Giovanni Leone, but better known as Leo Africanus. Done into English in the year 1600, by John Pory ; edited by Robert Brown
Published Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate ; [London] : Hakluyt Society, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (cxi, 224, [9] pages) : maps
Series Hakluyt Society, First Series ; v. 92
Hakluyt Society, First Series
Contents Cover; contents; prefatory note; introduction; pory's dedication to sir robert cecil; his address to the reader; his general description of africa; his description of places underscribed by leo; an approbation of leo's history by richard hakluyt and others; notes on pory's instroductory matter; john leo his first book of the description of africa; notes to book i; maps
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Diplomats -- Morocco
Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
TRAVEL -- Africa -- General.
Diplomats
Travel
Voyages and travels
SUBJECT Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Africa -- History -- Early works to 1800
Subject Africa
Morocco
Genre/Form Early works
History
Form Electronic book
Author Pory, John, 1572-1636.
Brown, Robert, 1842-1895.
Hakluyt Society
ISBN 9781409413592
1409413594
9781409415985
1409415988
1409415996
9781409415992
9781409416005
1409416003
Other Titles Della descrittione dell' Africa et delle cose notabli che quiui sono. English