The Travels of Mendes Pinto [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

This text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portugese explorer Fernao Mendes Pinto, came second only to Marco Polo's work in exciting Europe's imagination of the Orient. Chronicling adventures from Ethiopia to Japan, Travels covers twenty years of Mendes Pinto's odyssey as a soldier, a merchant, a diplomat, a slave, a pirate, and a missionary, and continues to overwhelm questions about its source with the sheer enjoyment of its narrative.

Chronicling adventures from Ethiopia to Japan, this text covers 20 years of Mendes Pinto's odyssey as a soldier, a merchant, a diplomat, a slave, a pirate, and a missionary.