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" The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. "
Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Edited and translated by Charles Raymond Beazley, Edgar Prestage.
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675069
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b504258
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| Main Entry
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Zurara, Gomes Eanes de,approximately 1410-1473 or 1474
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The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea.\ Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Edited and translated by Charles Raymond Beazley, Edgar Prestage.
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press.
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Place of publication not identified :: publisher not identified,, 1899.
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Cambridge library collection. Hakluyt First Series.
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1 online resource (404 pages) :: digital, PDF file(s)
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9780511709241 (ebook)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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| Abstract
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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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Gomes Eanes de Zurara (c.1410-1474) was a Portuguese writer appointed to chronicle the life of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) and the expeditions he sponsored. Zurara's chronicle of the discovery of Guinea appeared in this two-volume English translation in 1896-1899. The editors' preface includes an account of the voyages of exploration along the African coast sponsored by Prince Henry until 1448, together with biographical information about the author. Volume 2 contains chapters 41-97 of the Chronicle.
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Africa, West, Description and travel, Early works to 1800.
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Guinea (Region), Colonization, Early works to 1800.
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Guinea (Region), Discovery and exploration, Portuguese, Early works to 1800.
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Beazley, C. Raymond, (Charles Raymond),1868-1955
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Prestage, Edgar,1869-1951
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The Chronicle of the Discovery & Conquest of Guinea.
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