First published in 1949, this classic biography of Fernao Mendes Pinto, one of the greatest adventurers after Marco Polo, was unavailable for years. Maurice Collis (1889-1973) spent more than twenty years as a British civil servant in Burma. He was a noted scholar and travel writer.
- ISBN10 0856358509
- ISBN13 9780856358500
- Publish Date 1 February 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 August 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English