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Duarte Barbosa (circa 1480, Lisbon, Portugal - 1 May 1521,
Philippines) was a Portuguese writer and Portuguese India officer
between 1500 and 1516-17, with the post of scrivener in the
Cannanore Factory in India and sometimes interpreter of the local
language (Malayalam). His "Book of Duarte Barbosa" (Livro de Duarte
Barbosa) is one of the earliest examples of Portuguese travel
literature, written circa 1516, shortly after his arrival in the
Indian Ocean. In 1519 Duarte Barbosa embarked on the first
expedition to circumnavigate the world, led by his brother-in-law
Ferdinand Magellan, dying in 1521 at a feast held by the Rajah
Humabon in Cebu in the Philippines.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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. This 1866 volume contains
an English translation of a Spanish manuscript version of a
document originally written in Portuguese about 1514. The supposed
author, Duarte Barbosa, who may have been a relative of Magellan,
is said to have spent sixteen years exploring the Indian Ocean. The
complex history of this manuscript narrative is given in detail in
the translator's preface, and the book has explanatory notes and an
index.
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