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Author Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550.

Title The history and description of Africa and of the notable things therein contained. Volume I / written by al-Hassan ibn Mohammed al-Wezaz al-Fasi, a Moor, baptized as Giovanni Leone, but better known as Leo Africanus. Done into English in the year 1600, by John Pory ; edited by Robert Brown.

Publication Info. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate ; [London] : Hakluyt Society, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (cxi, 224 pages, 9 unnumbered pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Hakluyt Society, First Series ; v. 92
Hakluyt Society, First Series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Cover; contents; prefatory note; introduction; pory's dedication to sir robert cecil; his address to the reader; his general description of africa; his description of places underscribed by leo; an approbation of leo's history by richard hakluyt and others; notes on pory's instroductory matter; john leo his first book of the description of africa; notes to book i; maps.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Diplomats -- Morocco.
Diplomats.
Morocco.
Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.
Voyages and travels.
Chronological Term Early works to 1800
Subject Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Africa.
Africa -- History -- Early works to 1800.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Early works.
History.
Added Author Pory, John, 1572-1636.
Brown, Robert, 1842-1895.
Hakluyt Society.
Added Title Della descrittione dell' Africa et delle cose notabli che quiui sono. English
Other Form: Print version: Leo, Africanus, approximately 1492-approximately 1550. Della descrittione dell' Africa et delle cose notabli che quiui sono. English. History and description of Africa and of the notable things therein contained. Volume I. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate ; [London] : Hakluyt Society, 2010 9781409413592 1409413594 (OCoLC)862149453
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