The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea

Volume 95 of the Hakluyt Society publications (1896) contains fifteenth-century accounts of expeditions sponsored by Prince Henry the Navigator.

Gomes Eanes de Zurara (Author), Charles Raymond Beazley (Edited and translated by), Edgar Prestage (Edited and translated by)

9781108014748, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2010

220 pages, 4 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.29 kg

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Gomes Eanes de Zurara (c.1410–1474) was a Portuguese writer appointed to chronicle the life of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394–1460) and the expeditions he sponsored. Zurara's chronicle of the discovery of Guinea appeared in this two-volume English translation in 1896–1899. The editors' preface includes an account of the voyages of exploration along the African coast sponsored by Prince Henry until 1448, together with biographical information about the author. Volume 1 contains chapters 1–40 of the Chronicle.

Editors' preface
The life and writings of Azurara
Azurara's chronicle of the discovery and conquest of Guinea, chapters I-XL.

Subject Areas: African history [HBJH]