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1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; v. 2, no. C
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Chronicle of the discovery and conquest of Guinea
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Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; v. 2, no. C.
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Chronicle of the discovery and conquest of Guinea.
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Includes index. |
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Reprint. Originally published: London, 1899. |
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""COVER""; ""PREFATORY NOTE""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""I.�THE LIFE OF PRINCE HENRY""; ""VOYAGES OF PRINCE HENRY'S SEAMEN ALONGTHE WEST AFRICAN COAST""; ""VOYAGES OF THE PORTUGUESE COMPLETING PRINCE HENRY'S WORK""; ""AFRICAN EXPLORATION PRELIMINARY TO PRINCE HENRY'S WORK""; ""THE ATLANTIC ISLANDS""; ""I. BEFORE PRINCE HENRY""; ""2.�THE ATLANTIC ISLANDS IN PRINCE HENRY'S LIFETIME""; ""THE "" SCHOOL OF SAGRES, "" ETC""; ""MAPS AND SCIENTIFIC GEOGRAPHY UP TO AND DURING PRINCE HENRY'S LIFE""; ""AZURARA'S CHRONICLE OF THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF GUINEA"" |
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""CHAPTER XLI. How they took the ten Moors""""CHAPTER XLII. How Alvaro Vasquez took the thirty-five Moors""; ""CHAPTER XLIII. How they returned on shore, and of the Moor that they took""; ""CHAPTER XLIV. How they sailed to the Land of the Negroes""; ""CHAPTER XLV. How they forced their way upon shore""; ""CHAPTER XLVI. Of the battle that they had, and of the Moors that they took""; ""CHAPTER XLVII. How they found the turtles in the Island""; ""CHAPTER XLVIII. How they returned again to the Island, and of the Christians that perished"" |
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""CHAPTER XLIX. How Langarote and the others of Lagos asked of the Infant permission to go to Guinea""""CHAPTER L. How the Infant replied to the men of Lagos, and of the armament that was made ready against the said island""; ""CHAPTER LI. How the caravels quitted Lagos, and what captains were in them""; ""CHAPTER LII. Of how the caravels met at Cape Branco, and how Laurence Diaz fell in with the caravels of Lisbon""; ""CHAPTER LIII. Of how Langarote held a council at Cape Branco""; ""CHAPTER LIV. Of how they found the other caravels at the Isle of Herons, and of the counsel that they took"" |
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""CHAPTER LV. How those people landed on the Island of Tider""""CHAPTER LVI. How they returned again to Tider, and of the Moors that they took""; ""CHAPTER LVII. How they went to Tira""; ""CHAPTER LVIII. Of the words that Lancarote spake""; ""CHAPTER LIX. Of the words which Gomez Pirez spoke, and how they went to the land of Guinea""; ""CHAPTER LX. How those caravels arrived at the river of Nile, and of the Guineas that they took""; ""CHAPTER LXI. In which the author relateth some things concerning the River of Nile"" |
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""CHAPTER LXII. Of the might of the Nile according to the Astronomers, and of its increase""""CHAPTER LXIII. How the Caravels set forth from the river, and of the voyage which they made""; ""CHAPTER LXIV. Of how Lancarote and Alvaro de Freitas captured a dozen Moors""; ""CHAPTER LXV. How Lancarote and Alvaro de Freitas and Vicente Diaz took fifty-seven Moors""; ""CHAPTER LXVI. How Rodrigueannes and Dinis Dias joined company""; ""CHAPTER LXVII. How the five caravels returned to the kingdom, and of what they did beforehand"" |
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Henry, Infante of Portugal, 1394-1460.
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Henry, Infante of Portugal, 1394-1460. |
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Henry, Infante of Portugal, 1394-1460. |
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Guinea (Region) -- Discovery and exploration -- Portuguese -- Early works to 1800.
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Guinea (Region) |
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Discoveries in geography. |
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Early works to 1800 |
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Guinea (Region) -- Colonization -- Early works to 1800.
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Colonization. |
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Africa, West -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
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West Africa. |
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Cartography.
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Cartography. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Early works.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Beazley, C. Raymond (Charles Raymond), 1868-1955.
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Prestage, Edgar, 1869-1951.
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Print version: Beazley, Charles Raymond. Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea : Written by Gomes Eannes de Azurara : Volume II (Chapters XLI- XCVI). Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, ©2010 9781409413677 |
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9781409416067 (electronic book) |
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1409416062 (electronic book) |
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9781409413677 |
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