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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    01 June 2011
    08 April 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511697067
    9781108010573
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511697067
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.14kg, 104 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, European History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, Asian Studies, European History: General Interest, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series
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    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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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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