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History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof - Compiled by the Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza and now reprinted from the early translation of R. Parke (Paperback)
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History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof - Compiled by the Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza and now reprinted from the early translation of R. Parke (Paperback)
Series: History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof 2 Volume Set, Volume 1
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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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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. The two-volume account by
Juan Gonz lez de Mendoza of the history and geography of China was
translated into English in 1588. It was the first detailed
description of China available in English, though the introduction
to this 1853 edition reviews several earlier reports by western
travellers. Mendoza did not himself visit China; his first volume
is derived largely from the papers of Martin de Rada, an
Augustinian friar who went to China on a missionary expedition in
1575.
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