The Travels of Mendes Pinto

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Pcrqgrinagao dc Fernao Monch Pinto, by Fernao Mendes Pinto. 4 vols. Lisbon: Livraria Ferreira Editora, 1908—10. Brodrick, Iames. Saint Francis Xain'er (1506 —1552). New York: Wicklow Press, 1952. Cabaton, A. java, Sumatra, and the ...

• ISBN bar code 9780226923239 ξ1 registered September 21 2015
  
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This text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portugese explorer Fernão 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. "There is plenty here for the modern reader. . . . The vivid descriptions of swashbuckling military campaigns and exotic locations make this a great adventure story. . . . Mendes Pinto may have been a sensitive eyewitness, or a great liar, or a brilliant satirist, but he was certainly more than a simple storyteller."—Stuart Schwartz, The New York Times

^ Fernão Mendes Pinto (2013). The Travels of Mendes Pinto ISBN 9780226923239 (revised Aug 2018)