The Prester John of the Indies

Alternate Titles

• True relation of the lands of the Prester John

Description

The translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881; First Series 64), revised and edited with additional material by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford. Follows on from Second Series 114, with which the main pagination is continuous. Chapters 89-142 of Alvares, with the narrative of the return to Portugal, a translation of a seventeenth-century Ethiopian description of Aksum, and accounts of the rock-cut churches at Lalibala and certain other matters.

Subjects

Genres

• Early works to 1800.

Series Statement

• Hakluyt Society. Works,

Other Editions

• Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia During the Years 1520-1527HardcoverBurt Franklin1970-07-01
• The Prester John of the IndiesPublished for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press1961
• Narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Abyssinia during the years 1520-1527Printed for the Hakluyt Society1881-01-01
• Verdadeira informação das terras do preste João das IndiasImprensa nacional1889-01-01
• Verdadeira informação das terras do preste João das IndiasDivisão de publicações e biblioteca, Agência geral das colónias1943-01-01
• Verdadeira informação das terras do preste João das IndiasDivisão de Publicações e Biblioteca, Agência geral das colónias1943-01-01
• The Prester John of the IndiesCambridge University Press1961-01-01