Pilgrimage (Illustrated Edition)

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Books: Pilgrimage Author: Fernando Mendes Pinto Publisher: Expresso Weight: 7000 g Brand-new copy, in original packaging. The work comprises 10 paperback volumes, housed in the publisher's box. Illustrations by Carlos Marreiros. Notes by António José Saraiva. Profusely illustrated with a postmodernist graphic interpretation, featuring decorative initial letters and historiated vignettes. Revised and annotated edition of Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Pilgrimage—the travel chronicle of the Portuguese explorer and adventurer, first published in 1614. Mendes Pinto’s account of his journey across Asia, written between 1570 and 1578, provides detailed information about the places he visited, describing the peoples, customs, and institutions of various locations including Goa, Malacca, China, Japan, the Moluccas, Sunda, and the coast of Burma. Although scholars have long questioned the veracity of his account—just as his contemporaries had centuries earlier—Pilgrimage remains one of the most remarkable works of seventeenth-century literature, encapsulating the perils and extraordinary feats of the Portuguese during the Age of Discovery. The volume includes numerous annotations by António J. Saraiva, illustrations, maps, and a glossary to aid understanding of certain obsolete period expressions. New; all volumes (except Volume 1) remain sealed in their original plastic wrapping. Hand delivery available in the Lisbon region