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Caesar of the East
Tom Earle
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Of all the remarkable people who first opened up the rest of the world to the Europeans Columbus, Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Pizarro and Cortes Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, was one of the most astonishing. He was a commander of bold strategic conceptions, a far-sighted administrator and in addition a talented writer, whose dispatches to King Manuel contain a wealth of spontaneous narrative, description and pungent comment. Caesar of the East is a specially edited anthology, based on the original Portuguese texts, of selections ... Read more
Of all the remarkable people who first opened up the rest of the world to the Europeans Columbus, Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Pizarro and Cortes Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, was one of the most astonishing. He was a commander of bold strategic conceptions, a far-sighted administrator and in addition a talented writer, whose dispatches to King Manuel contain a wealth of spontaneous narrative, description and pungent comment. Caesar of the East is a specially edited anthology, based on the original Portuguese texts, of selections ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856684883
SKU
V9780856684883
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99-50
About Tom Earle
T F Earle is Director of Portuguese Studies at the University of Oxford and the author of two books about another great sixteenth century Portuguese, Antonio Ferreira. John Villiers, since gaining his doctorate in Portuguese history at the University of Cambridge, has specialised in the study of the Portuguese empire in the East and the maritime history of Southeast Asia, ... Read more
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