Prisoners of Prester John - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prisoners of Prester John write by Cates Baldridge. This book was released on 2014-01-10. Prisoners of Prester John available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the 16th century, Portugal endeavored to locate the mythical kingdom of Prester John--a Christian nation rumored to be somewhere in the Orient, amidst the pagans and Muslims. This study chronicles Portugal's final attempt, a six-year odyssey in Ethiopia that resulted in a tragicomic collision with a proud but isolated Christian kingdom. After summarizing the Prester John myth and the many efforts it spawned, the work focuses on the Ethiopian mission's chronicler, Father Francisco Alvares, who fell in love with the country and its people, became a friend of its king, hid the Abyssinians' heresies from his superiors, and set in motion events that saved Ethiopia from imminent destruction. Unique in the annals of Europeans' initial contacts with African peoples, the Portuguese mission is a portrait of hopeful preconceptions buffeted and eventually transformed by encounters with a fascinating, utterly unexpected reality.
The Prester John of the Indies
The Prester John of the Indies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prester John of the Indies write by C.F. Beckingham. This book was released on 2017-07-05. The Prester John of the Indies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520 and re-embarked 6 years later. It was the first European embassy known to have reached the Ethiopian court and returned safely from it. It was a small group of fourteen, among whom was the chronicler Alvares, who wrote the most detailed early account of the country, valuable for Ethiopian history and the history of the expansion of Europe. Alvares's account was translated into English for the Hakluyt Society by Lord Stanley in 1881. This revision makes use of sources since discovered, corrects certain errors, and modifies the style of the early version. There is an introduction, detailed annotation and a number of appendices. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1961.
The Prester John of the Indies
The Prester John of the Indies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prester John of the Indies write by Francisco Alvares. This book was released on 1961. The Prester John of the Indies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Prester John: Africa's Lost King
Prester John: Africa's Lost King - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prester John: Africa's Lost King write by Richard Denham. This book was released on . Prester John: Africa's Lost King available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. He sits on his jewelled throne on the Horn of Africa in the maps of the sixteenth century. He can see his whole empire reflected in a mirror outside his palace. He carries three crosses into battle and each cross is guarded by one hundred thousand men. He was with St Thomas in the third century when he set up a Christian church in India. He came like a thunderbolt out of the far East eight centuries later, to rescue the crusaders clinging on to Jerusalem. And he was still there when Portuguese explorers went looking for him in the fifteenth century. He went by different names. The priest who was also a king was Ong Khan; he was Genghis Khan; he was Lebna Dengel. Above all, he was a Christian king who ruled a vast empire full of magical wonders: men with faces in their chests; men with huge, backward-facing feet; rivers and seas made of sand. His lands lay next to the earthly Paradise which had once been the Garden of Eden. He wrote letters to popes and princes. He promised salvation and hope to generations. But it was noticeable that as men looked outward, exploring more of the natural world; as science replaced superstition and the age of miracles faded, Prester John was always elsewhere. He was beyond the Mountains of the Moon, at the edge of the earth, near the mouth of Hell. Was he real? Did he ever exist? This book will take you on a journey of a lifetime, to worlds that might have been, but never were. It will take you, if you are brave enough, into the world of Prester John.
The Prester John of the Indies
The Prester John of the Indies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prester John of the Indies write by G.W.B. Huntingford. This book was released on 2017-05-15. The Prester John of the Indies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520 and re-embarked 6 years later. It was the first European embassy known to have reached the Ethiopian court and returned safely from it. It was a small group of fourteen, among whom was the chronicler Alvares, who wrote the most detailed early account of the country, valuable for Ethiopian history and the history of the expansion of Europe. Alvares's account was translated into English for the Hakluyt Society by Lord Stanley in 1881. This revision makes use of sources since discovered, corrects certain errors, and modifies the style of the early version. There is an introduction, detailed annotation and a number of appendices. Continued in the following volume (Second Series 115), with which the main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1961.
