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

An 1884 translation of a sixteenth-century account of the Portuguese captain Afonso de Albuquerque's battles at Aden and Ormuz.

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

9781108011631, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2010

376 pages, 6 b/w illus.
21.6 x 2.1 x 14 cm, 0.48 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 4 contains a description of his unsuccessful siege of Aden in 1513, his capture of Ormuz in 1515 and his death later the same year.

Introduction
Chronology of Part IV
Title to the edition of 1774 Part IV
Title of the chapters contained in the fourth part
Commentaries of Afonso Dalboquerque Part IV
Index
Glossary.

Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]