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The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast: Hadrami Chronicles. With Yemeni and European Accounts of Dutch Pirates off Mocha in the seventeenth century.
SERJEANT (R.B.).
Publication Date: 1963
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First edition. 8vo. x, 233 pp. plus 14 plates, 2 maps (1 folding) and 2 ground plans (in the text). Original navy cloth, spine a little marked. A very good sound and bright copy otherwise. Clarendon Press, Oxford. An excellent book on Portuguese activity along the South-west coast of Arabia in the 16th century. "The present volume . . . deals with one of the most dramatic periods of South Arabian history: the exploits of the Portuguese in those parts and their clashes with the Egyptian Mamluks, the latters' successors, the Ottoman Turks, and in particular with the local rulers and potentates." (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 27, Issue 2, June 1964. pp. 441-442). . Seller Inventory # 217341
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast: ...
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition