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The Travels of Mendes Pinto by Fernão Mendes Pinto is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Travels of Mendes Pinto about?
<p>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.</p> <p>"[T]here 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, <i>The New York Times</i></p>
Who reads The Travels of Mendes Pinto?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Fernão Mendes Pinto
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226669557
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Travel, History