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Tracy, H : Antonio Fernandes. Descobridor Do Monomotapa 1514 - 1515

Ediçao Do Arquivo Historico De Mozambique, Lourenço Marques, 1940

Large Quarto.. 82 pp. Portuguese text. Includes reproductions of maps, and two large fold-out maps. Some damage to the top edge where something was spilled and the pages later pulled apart (affects most pages). Inside of rear wrapper browned. Rear of one map shows some abrasions to the paper – does not affect the front of map. Fourth last illustration damaged. One ink notation to each fold-out map (see images). Else good, clean and tightly bound. Inscribed by Hugh Tracey on the half-title page, dated 1973. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Soft Cover. The following is taken from the Encyclopedia Britannica “António Fernandes, (flourished 1501–16, Lisbon, Port.), Portuguese explorer in central Africa. Fernandes, a carpenter by trade, was exiled to Africa as a criminal at the beginning of the 16th century. He worked as a carpenter there and later, because of his exceptional gift for languages, as an interpreter at the Portuguese garrison of Sofala. In 1514 and 1515 he undertook expeditions in search of the sources of the gold trade of the inland kingdom of Mwene Matapa, penetrating 300 miles (500 km) inland into present-day Zimbabwe and returning with reports of the goldfields of Matabeleland. “. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good +. Binding: Paper Wrappers. Jacket: No Jacket (As Issued)`

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