From: Sérgio Mascarenhas (sermasalmeida@mail.telepac.pt)
Date: Tue 05 Aug 1997 - 17:57:11 EEST
Stephen Martin about Drastic Resolutions:
> I am currently considering an Oceans and Islands issue
For people working on sea travels and ocean related campaigns I can suggest
some RW books for inspiration. They are accounts of Portuguese navigation
and travels in the 16th century when Portugal created the first worldwide
sea born empire. The references are from Amazon.com:
- - The Travels of Mendes Pinto
by Fernao Mendes Pinto, Rebecca D. Catz
Hardcover, 663 pages
Published by Univ of Chicago Pr (Txt)
Publication date: March 1, 1990
Dimensions (in inches): 10.35 x 7.45 x 1.76
ISBN: 0226669513
List: $60.00 ~ Our Price: $60.00
(This is a must-read: the first person account of an ADVENTURER in India
and the Sea of China.)
- - The First Voyage Around the World (1519-1522)
by Antonio Pigafetta, Theodore J. Cachey (Editor)
Reprint Edition
Paperback
Published by Marsilio Pub
Publication date: October 1, 1995
Dimensions (in inches): 8.28 x 5.50 x .79
ISBN: 1568860056
List: $16.95 ~ Our Price: $13.56 ~ You Save: $3.39 (20%)
or
The First Voyage Around the World : 1519-1522 an Account of Magellans
Expedition (1519-1522)
by Antonio Pigafetta, Theodore J. Cachey (Editor)
Hardcover
Published by Marsilio Pub
Publication date: October 1, 1995
Dimensions (in inches): 8.46 x 5.72 x .94
ISBN: 1568860048
List: $24.00 ~ Our Price: $24.00
(The account of the first travel around the world by one of its
participants.)
- - Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622
by C.R. Boxer
Published by Periodicals Service Co
Publication date: June 1959
ISBN: 0811504034
(This is another must-read: a collection of descriptions of sunk ships by
the survivors. Unfortunatelly this edition is out of print. I think that
there are other more modern editions but I couldn't find them.)
Here is an history that can give you the taste of it:
A Portuguese sailor and adventurer was the first european to reach the
kingdom of Pegu - now Burma. Like most Portuguese traveling in the indic
and pacific oceans, his intentions were to trade and establish political
links. The king received him and, since he was very curious, asked the
adventurer to tell him about the distant and unknown lands of Europe.
The Portuguese talked and talked. The king was amazed and impressed. At a
certain moment, the sailor told the king that in the far north weather was
so cold that water would freeze and become hard as rock. At that point the
king started to laugh and laugh. Solid water? How could it be??? That
foreigner was joking and trying to full him. Finally he chased the sailor
out of his court. Portuguese had to wait for the next king in Pegu to
reestablish diplomatic and trade relations.
Sergio Mascarenhas
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