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A description of the coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the beginning of the sixteenth century
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Sir Anthony Sherley and his Persian Adventure
As well as including Sherley's own account of his journey into Persia in 1600, this valuable edition includes the main works dealing with Anthony Sherley and his life. Original inaccessible texts are reprinted in full and the critical bibliographical introduction provides excellent guidance for the understanding of the various sources (and their merits and limitations), and the context in which Sherley's own account was composed. When first published in 1933, Sherley's narrative (1613) had never before been reprinted.
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Arrian
\"Arrian (Flavius Arrianus), of the period ca. AD 95-175, was a Greek historian and philosopher of Nicomedia in Bithynia. Both a Roman and an Athenian citizen, he was governor of the Roman province of Cappadocia 132-137, and repelled an invasion of the Alani in 134. He retired then to Athens (where he was archon in 148-149) and later to Nicomedia. Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander in seven books is the best account we have of Alexander's adult life. Indica, a description of India and of Nearchus's voyage therefrom, was to be a supplement. A student of Epictetus, Arrian took notes at his lectures and published them (in eight books of which we have four, The Discourses) and also the Encheiridion or Manual of Epictetus. Both works are available in the Loeb Epictetus edition.\"--Jacket
Lettres Persanes
Extrait : \"Le soir, [...] ils chantaient les injustices des premiers Troglodytes et leurs malheurs, la vertu renaissante avec un nouveau peuple, et sa felicite : ils chantaient ensuite les grandeurs des dieux, leurs faveurs toujours presentes aux hommes qui les implorent, et leur colere inevitable a ceux qui ne les craignent pas; ils decrivaient ensuite les delices de la vie champetre, et le bonheur d'une condition toujours paree de l'innocence.\"
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