The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India
Translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774

This 1875 translation describes Portuguese expeditions to India and the Persian Gulf between 1503 and 1509.

Afonso de Albuquerque (Author), Walter de Gray Birch (Translated by)

9781108011440, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2010

340 pages, 1 colour illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.43 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volumes 53, 55, 62 and 69 of the series contain the English translation of The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, translated and edited by Walter de Grey Birch. Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515) was a Portuguese naval officer and nobleman whose successful military campaigns helped establish Portugal's colonies in India. Volume 1, published in 1875, contains an account of de Albuquerque's expeditions to India from 1503 to 1509 and his first conquest of Ormuz (modern Hormuz Island, Iran).

Introduction
Chronology of Part I
Title to the edition of 1774
Epistle dedicatory of Nicolao Pagliarini ti the Marquez de Pombal
To the reader
Epistle dedicatory of Afonso Dalboquerque, the Younger, to the King D. Sebastiao, Titles of the chapters contained in the first part
Commentaries of Afonso Dalboquerque Part I.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]