The History and Description of Africa
And of the Notable Things Therein Contained

This volume of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1896) contains a description of northern Africa in the sixteenth century.

Leo Africanus (Author), Robert Brown (Edited by), John Pory (Translated by)

9781108012898, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 June 2010

488 pages
21.6 x 2.8 x 14 cm, 0.62 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Leo Africanus (c. 1494–c. 1554) was an Arab diplomat captured by Europeans in 1518 and taken to Rome. He was later released by Pope Leo X and enjoyed papal patronage until he left Rome in 1527. This work describes the region of north Africa known as the Maghreb, and was considered the most authoritative account of the cultures, religions and politics of this region until the start of European exploration in the nineteenth century. Volume 2 describes the kingdoms of Marrakesh, Fez and Tlemcen.

The second book
Notes to Book II
The third book
Notes to Book III
The fourth book
Notes to Book IV.

Subject Areas: African history [HBJH]