History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof

Compiled by the Padre Juan González de Mendoza and now reprinted from the early translation of R. Parke

By:

Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

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Paperback / softback

Series:

History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof 2 Volume Set

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. The two-volume account by Juan González de Mendoza of the history and geography of China was translated into English in 1588. It was the first detailed description of China available in English, though the introduction to this 1853 edition reviews several earlier reports by western travellers. Mendoza did not himself visit China; his second volume concludes the account based on de Rada's writings and also describes the missionary travels of the Franciscan friar Pedro de Alfaro.

Release date Australia

August 31st, 2010

Author

Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Edited by George Staunton
Edited by Richard Henry Major
Translated by R. Parke

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

364

Series

History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof 2 Volume Set

Dimensions

21x216x140

ISBN-13

9781108008198

Product ID

8939284

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