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Congo to Cape: Early Portuguese Explorers

Author(s):

Axelson, Eric

Illustrator(s):

Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket:

Yes

Dust Jacket Condition:

Very Good

Dust Jacket Protection:

Brodart-style sleeve

Edition:

1st Edition

Impression:

1st Impression

Signature:

–

Language:

English

Publisher Name:

Faber and Faber

Publication Year:

1973

Publication Place:

London, UK

ISBN:

–

Book ID:

014319

Catalogue(s):

History – Europe ◇ Travel, Exploration and Topography

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1st edition. 224pp, with occasional maps and monochrome illustrations. In cloth covered boards. Cloth a little faded at edges. An ex-lending library book, with lending sheet on front free endpaper, discreet stamp on title page and call numbers on copyright right page, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, a little bumped along upper, and protected in Brodart-style wrapper, taped to the volume on endpapers; call number label on spine. Remarkably clean, neat, bright and tight for an ex-lending library book. Describes and discussed the explorations of Diogp Cao (1482-6) from Cape Santa Catarina into the estuary of the Congo and of Bartolomeu Dias who, in 1487-8, rounded what he called the Cape of Good Hope and opened up a sea route into the Indian Ocean.

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