by Fernão Mendes Pinto · Europa-América · tapa blanda · ISBN 5601072408494
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«Peregrinação (vol. 2)» is Fernão Mendes Pinto's travel account, published by Europa-América in paperback, in Portuguese.
This second volume continues Fernão Mendes Pinto's first-person account of Asia in the sixteenth century. His travels and adventures are interwoven with the description of the territory, the customs and conflicts of the time, and the result is a testimony to the contact between Portuguese expansion and the Asian civilizations.
Second volume of «Peregrinação»; a work published posthumously, in this 1983 edition.
For readers of travel literature and modern history, especially those interested in the Portuguese presence in Asia during the sixteenth century.
Fernão Mendes Pinto was a Portuguese explorer and writer. His voyages are recorded in Pilgrimage, his autobiographical memoir, which was published posthumously in 1614. The historical accuracy of the work is debatable due to the many events that seem far-fetched or at least exaggerated, earning him the nickname Fernão Mentes Minto. Still, many aspects of the work can be verified, particularly through records of Pinto's service to the Portuguese crown and by his association with Jesuit missionaries.
