UID:
almafu_9960117464102883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 68 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-69706-6
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration
Content:
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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 volume contains the first English translation (in 1863) of a Latin manuscript written in about 1330 and published in France in 1839. Jordanus was a Dominican missionary to India, who became bishop of Columbum (probably a town on the Malabar coast). He recorded anything he thought noteworthy on his travels from the Mediterranean to India via Persia and back again, and his remarks on the climate, produce, people and customs of the countries he passed through are a good source of information.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2010.
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Originally published: London: Hakluyt Society, 1863.
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Includes index.
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Translated from the Latin.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-01057-1
Language:
English
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