History of the Great and Mighty Kingdome of China and the Situation Thereof: Compiled by the Padre Juan Gonz疝ez de Mendoza and Now Reprinted from the (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108008198)

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. The two-volume account by Juan Gonz lez de Mendoza of the history and geography of China was translated into English in 1588. It was the first detailed description of China available in English, though the introduction to this 1853 edition reviews several earlier reports by western travellers. Mendoza did not himself visit China; his second volume concludes the account based on de Rada's writings and also describes the missionary travels of the Franciscan friar Pedro de Alfaro.

Author: Juan Gonz疝ez de Mendoza
ISBN-10: 1108008194
ISBN-13: 9781108008198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2010
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d