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• Contents:Prefatory note-- Preface-- Introduction-- Note on some of the features of the translation-- Topographical summary-- The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea-- Appendices-- Extracts from Agatharkhides 'on the Erythraean sea-- Bibliography-- Indexes.
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The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea is a short work of uncertain date and unknown authorship, written in very difficult Greek. It is concerned with the coasts of the Red Sea and
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• Contents: Introduction-- Note on transliteration-- Summary of the Portuguese journey from Massawa to Shoa in 1520-- A True Relation of the Lands of the Prester John, Chapters I-LXXXVIII.
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This is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520 and re-embarked 6 years later. It was the first European embassy known to have reached the Ethiopian court and returned safely from it. It was a small group of fourteen, among whom was the chronicler Alvares, who wrote the most detailed early account of the country, valuable for Ethiopian history and the history of the expansion of Europe. Alvares's account was translated into English for the Hakluyt Society by Lord Stanley in 1881. This revision makes use of sources since discovered, corrects certain errors, and modifies the style of the early version. There is an introduction, detailed annotation and a number of appendices. Continued in the following volume (Second Series 115), with which the main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961.
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• Contents: Preface-- Bibliography-- Introduction-- The ethnology and history of South-West Ethiopia-- Almeida's remarks on his map of Ethiopia-- Ethiopia and Its People from The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia by Manoel de Almeida: Books I-III-- History of the Galla, by Bahrey-- The Galla: from Almeida's History, Book IV-- Travels of the Jesuit Fathers from Almeida's History, Books VII-VIII-- Appendices-- Index.
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The selections from Almeida, translated and edited, describe the country and its people and the journeys of Jesuit missionaries attempting to enter or leave Ethiopia. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1954.
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