HISTORY OF THE PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES (A)

PERES (Damião).— A HISTORY OF THE PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES. Lisboa. Comissão Executiva das Comemorações do Quinto Centenário da Morte do Infante D. Henrique. 1960. 11,5x18,5 cm. 128-IV págs. B.

“(...) I published some years ago an extensive and specialized work on the above subject with the same title that this present volume carries. Now, through the obliging kindness of the Executive Comission of the Vth Centenary of the death of Henry The Navigator, I return to the same theme, but with a different object: that of making known as a specific phenomenom, and in imperishable terms, the maritime epic, whic during more than a century, under various skies, demonstrated the capacity of Portuguese as navigatrs and as man.”.

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