This text, ostensibly the autobiography of Portugese explorer Fernão Mendes Pinto, came second only to Marco Polo's work in exciting Europe's imagination of th...
Chronicling adventures from Ethiopia to Japan, this text covers 20 years of Mendes Pinto's odyssey as a soldier, a merchant, a diplomat, a slave, a pirate, and ...
Pirates are primarily known for their swashbuckling attitudes, their freebooting lifestyle, their high-seas adventures and their stolen treasure, but their vict...