Dictionary Catalog

Dictionary Catalog
Author: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History
Publisher:
Total Pages: 762
Release: 1962
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Written by Gomes Eannes De Azurara

The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Written by Gomes Eannes De Azurara
Author: Charles Raymond Beazley
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2010-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781409413677

This continues the translation and edtion of the chronicle from First Series 95, with chapters 41-97, and 'an Introduction on the early History of African Exploration, Cartography, etc.' This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1899.

The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea

The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
Author: Gomes Eanes de Zurara
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781108013901

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Gomes Eanes de Zurara (c.1410-1474) was a Portuguese writer appointed to chronicle the life of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) and the expeditions he sponsored. Zurara's chronicle of the discovery of Guinea appeared in this two-volume English translation in 1896-1899. The editors' preface includes an account of the voyages of exploration along the African coast sponsored by Prince Henry until 1448, together with biographical information about the author. Volume 2 contains chapters 41-97 of the Chronicle.