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The Grand Peregrination

Maurice Collis

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Categories: Portuguese
Imprint: Aspects of Portugal
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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  • First published in 1949, this classic biography of Fernão Mendes Pinto, one of the greatest adventurers after Marco Polo, was unavailable for years. Maurice Collis (1889-1973) spent more than twenty years as a British civil servant in Burma. He was a noted scholar and travel writer.
    Maurice Stewart Collis was an administrator in Burma when it was part of the British Empire, and afterwards a writer on Southeast Asia, China and other historical subjects. He recounted his time in this office in his memior Trials in Burma. In it, he gives a particular focus to two trials ... read more
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