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This text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portugese explorer
Fernao 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.
"[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, "The New York Times"
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