1st Edition
The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things therein contained Written by Al-Hassan Ibn-Mohammed Al-Wezaz Al-Fasi, a Moor, baptised as Giovanni Leone, but better known as Leo Africanus. Done into English in the Year 1600, by John Pory
Edited By Robert Brown
Copyright 2010
352 Pages
by
Hakluyt Society
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Containing Book I of the original, edited, with an introduction and notes. This and the following two volumes (First Series 93 and 94) have continuous pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1896.
Introduction; A Geographical Historie of Africa; To The Right Honora ble sir R obert C ecil , Knight, princi pall Secretarie to her Males tie, Master of the Court of Wardes and Liueries, and one of her Highnes most Honorable priuie Counsell.; To the Reader; A generall description of all Africa, togither with a comparison of the ancient and new names of all the pnncipall countries and proitinces therein; A particular description of all the knowne borders, coastes and inlands of Africa, which Iohn Leo hath left undescribed: collected out of sundry ancient and late writers; An approbation of the kistorie ensuing, by me R ichard H aklvyt.; Iohn Leo His First Booke oF the description of Africa, and of the memorable things contained therein; Maps
Biography
Robert Brown