Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea

GPTKB entity

Statements (27)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkbp:alternativeName Crónica dos Feitos da Guiné
gptkbp:author gptkb:Gomes_Eanes_de_Zurara
gptkbp:commissionedBy Infante Dom Henrique (Henry the Navigator)
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Portugal
gptkbp:coversPeriod 1441–1448
gptkbp:dateWritten 1453
gptkbp:dedicatedTo Infante Dom Henrique (Henry the Navigator)
gptkbp:EnglishTranslationPublished 1896
gptkbp:EnglishTranslationTitle The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
gptkbp:firstPublished 1841
Sociedade Propagadora dos Conhecimentos Úteis
gptkbp:genre history
gptkbp:historicalSignificance documents early European contact with sub-Saharan Africa
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
gptkbp:notableFor primary source for 15th-century Portuguese maritime history
earliest detailed account of Portuguese exploration of West Africa
description of early Atlantic slave trade
gptkbp:originalLanguage Portuguese
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Guinea
slave trade
Portuguese exploration
gptkbp:translatedInto English
Charles Raymond Beazley
Edgar Prestage
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Pero_Pinheiro
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7