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CRAWFORD (O. G. S.), ed. ETHIOPIAN Itineraries, circa 1400-1524. Cambridge. 1958. - CRAWFORD (O. G. S.), ed. ETHIOPIAN Itineraries, circa 1400-1524 . Including those collected by Alessandro Zorzi at Venice in the years 1519-24. Edited by O. G. S. Crawford. Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1958. xxx, 232 pp.: il.; 225 mm. (Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. CIX) First edition, published posthumously. Ethiopian Itineraries brings together and critically edits a collection of medieval and sixteenth-century itineraries relating to Ethiopia, dating from c. 1400 to 1524. The core of the work consists of routes collected by the Venetian cartographer Alessandro Zorzi between 1519 and 1524 from accounts by Ethiopian pilgrims and European travelers in Venice – itineraries that Zorzi never personally traveled. Zorzi's Italian text is presented in a bilingual edition with an English translation by C.A. Ralegh Radford. The work also includes 21 maps, two of which are fold-out, and a study on the historical geography of Ethiopia. A reference volume for studies of the history of African cartography and for Luso-Ethiopian relations during the Age of Exploration. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate