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The ordeal of the African writer
Larson, Charles R
2001
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-161) and index.
A geographical historie of Africa, written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More, borne in Granada, and brought up in Barbarie. Wherein he hath at large described, not onely the qualities, situations, and true distances of the regions, cities, townes, mountaines, rivers, and other places throughout all the north and principall partes of Africa; but also the descents and families of their kings... gathered partly out of his owne diligent observations, and partly out of the ancient records and chronicles of the Arabians and Mores. Before which, out of the best ancient and moderne writers, is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and also a particular treatise of all the maine lands and isles undescribed by Iohn Leo. ... Translated and collected by Iohn Pory, lately of Gonevill and Caius College in Cambridge
Leo Africanus (1492-1550); Pory, John (1572-1636)
1600
A translation of: Della descrittione dell'Africa. Signature P is omitted from the register, but there is no gap in the pagination and nothing is wanting from the text. Printer's name from STC. "...