The Voyages of the Venetian Brothers, Nicolò and Antonio Zeno, to the Northern Seas in the Xivth Century: Comprising the Latest Known Accounts of the

ISBN-13: 9781409413172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 192 str.

Major, Richard Henry

Opis

The Italian text of the Zenos' narrative (compiled from the letters of Nicolò Zeno by Nicolò Zeno the Younger), and the Danish and Latin texts of Ivar Bardsen's description of Greenland in the fourteenth century, with English translation. Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1873.

Spis treści

Preface, INTRODUCTION, GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE ZENO FAMILY, THE DISCOVERY Of the Iflands of FRISLANDA, ESLANDA, Engronelanda, Estotilanda, and Icaria, APPENDIX DESCRIPTION OF GREENLAND IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY, INDEX

O autorze

Richard Henry Major