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Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 143 g
The Wonders of the East
Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 143 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection- Hakluyt First Series
ISBN: 978-1-108-01057-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 valuable source of information.
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Preface; 1. The Mediterranean; 2. Concerning Armenia; 3. Concerning the realm of Persia; 4. Concerning India the Less; 5. Concerning India the Greater; 6. Concerning India Tertia (S.E. Africa); 7. Concerning the Greater Arabia; 8. Concerning the Great Tartar; 9. Concerning Caldea; 10. Concerning the land of Aran; 11. Concerning the land of Mogan; 12. Concerning the Caspian hills; 13. Concerning Georgiana; 14. Concerning the distances of countries; 15. Concerning the island of Chios; 16. Concerning Turkey; Index.
