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BAIÃO (António). ITINERÁRIOS da Índia a Portugal por Terra. Coimbra. 1923. - BAIÃO (António) ITINERÁRIOS da Índia a Portugal por Terra . Revistos e prefaciados por por António Baião, Director do Arquivo da Torre do Tombo e sócio efectivo das Sciências de Lisboa. I. Itinerário de António Tenreiro, Sexta Edição, Conforme a Segunda, de 1565. II. Itinerário de Mestre Afonso, Reedição conforme o manuscrito da Torre do Tombo. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1923. XXXVIII, 310 pp.; 210 mm. (Scriptores Rerum Lusitanarum - Série B - II) This edition, revised and prefaced by António Baião, contains two of the most important Portuguese accounts of the overland route between India and Portugal in the 16th century, as part of the Scriptores Rerum Lusitanarum series. The first text is the Itinerary of António Tenreiro, knight of the Order of Christ, in its sixth edition, based on the second edition of 1565. The second is the Itinerary of Master Afonso, chief surgeon of India, who made the journey on the orders of Governor João de Mendonça, republished from the manuscript in the Torre do Tombo archives. Both accounts describe, through the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, an alternative to the India Route, with geographical, political, and cultural observations of the regions traversed, making them fundamental sources for the history of relations between Portugal and the Islamic world. The edition, illustrated with prints outside the text, made the second itinerary, previously unpublished, accessible to the reader, and remains a common reference in the bibliography on overland travel literature. Highly regarded. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate