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The peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto, soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador, during twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, Cochin-China, East Indies, China, Japan. Sailing unchartered oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, thirteen times captured, sixteen times enslaved. He met a saint, repented his ways, returned home and wrote his story for his children and for posterity, abridged and translated by Michael Lowery ; introduced by Luʹis Sousa Rebelo ; and furnished with illustrations

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The peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto, soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador, during twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, Cochin-China, East Indies, China, Japan. Sailing unchartered oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, thirteen times captured, sixteen times enslaved. He met a saint, repented his ways, returned home and wrote his story for his children and for posterity, abridged and translated by Michael Lowery ; introduced by Luʹis Sousa Rebelo ; and furnished with illustrations

Language

eng

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autobiography

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non fiction

Main title

The peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto

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60076291

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abridged and translated by Michael Lowery ; introduced by Luʹis Sousa Rebelo ; and furnished with illustrations

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Aspects of Portugal

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soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador, during twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, Cochin-China, East Indies, China, Japan. Sailing unchartered oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, thirteen times captured, sixteen times enslaved. He met a saint, repented his ways, returned home and wrote his story for his children and for posterity

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