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BARBOSA (Duarte). LIVRO em que dá Relação do que Viu e Ouviu no Oriente. Lisboa. 1946. - BARBOSA (Duarte) LIVRO em que dá Relação do que Viu e Ouviu no Oriente . Introdução e Notas de Augusto Reis Machado. Lisboa: Âgencia Geral das Colónias, 1946. 244 pp.; 225 mm. Composed around 1516-1518, the Book of Duarte Barbosa is one of the most important and complete European accounts of the world of the Indian Ocean and the Far East at the dawn of the 16th century, covering the east coast of Africa, the Persian Gulf, India, Southeast Asia and China, with meticulous descriptions of ports, peoples, languages, religions, products and trade routes. It constitutes an indispensable primary source for the study of Portuguese expansion in the East and the historical geography of the Indian Ocean, having circulated early on in Italian versions and been widely used by European cosmographers and historians of the 16th and 17th centuries. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate