The Voyages and Adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto. Done Into Engl. by H.C
- 344 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Fernão Mendes Pinto Book order
January 1, 1509 – July 8, 1583
Fernão Mendes Pinto was a Portuguese explorer and writer whose voyages are chronicled in his autobiographical memoir, Pilgrimage. His narrative captures incredible, yet partially verifiable, events from his life, including service to the Portuguese Crown and association with Jesuit missionaries. Pinto opens readers' eyes to exotic worlds, offering a unique perspective on cultural encounters and adventures in faraway lands. His literary legacy lies in its vivid and colorful depiction of the world as seen by a Western traveler during a tumultuous era.
- 2022
- 1992
The Peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto, soldier of fortune, trader, pirate, agent, ambassador. During twenty-one years in Ethiopia, Persia, Malaya, India, Burma, Siam, China, Japan, sailing uncharted oriental seas, he was five times shipwrecked, thirteen times captured, sixteen times enslaved. He met a saint, repented his ways, returned home and wrote his story for his children and for posterity. Born around 1510, Fernão Mendes Pinto was the most articulate of the Portuguese trader-adventurers who swarmed through the Orient in the wake of Vasco da Gama. Here his story has been abridged and brilliantly translated by Michael Lowery, and is introduced by Dr Luis Sousa Rebelo.