The Golden Age of Prince Henry the Navigator (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Martins, J. P. Oliveira) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Golden Age of Prince Henry the Navigator The following work is an account of the lives, adventures, discoveries, dreams, and ultimate fates of that wonderful family of brothers, the Portuguese Grandsons of John of Gaunt - sons of John of Aviz, and Philippa of Lancaster. In its pages will be found living, moving pictures of grim old John of Aviz himself, as well as of his sons, Duarte the Eloquent, Peter the Traveller, Henry the Navigator, John the Unfortunate, Fernando the Martyr, and last, but not least, Barcellos "le batard," head of the future Royal House of Braganza. The glimpses it gives of the colour and movement of the fifteenth century, when Moslem and Christian fought fiercely for dominance in Europe, when grim mediæval barbarism, cruelty and lust, mixed and mingled with the pomp and circumstance of knightly chivalry, with childlike Christian piety and budding transcendentalism, makes it read more like a cunningly devised historical romance than sober history. Yet all the facts presented have been carefully verified; and often the very words of the original documents have been interwoven in the text: for the aim of the author has been to attempt, as it were, a resurrection, striving to make his readers see events, not with their own sophisticated modern eyes, but as they appeared to the men and women of the time in which they were happening. In the Iberian peninsula the work is now a classic. It has been drawn upon freely by foreign writers in the compilation of histories of discovery and colonisation. But up to the present it has never before been presented to the English public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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