Beige hardcover with title in red on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Light browning to endpapers from dustjacket flaps. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with some light soiling, light foxing and some sunning to spine. 226pp. 12 b/w illustrations, 3 b/w maps, one folding. In this book the author details the 17th century activities of the Portuguese in south-east Africa, from their base at Mocambique (Mozambique) up the Zambezi into Mashonaland, and on the Mombasa coast. An appendix summarises survivors' accounts of the shipwrecks on the coast of southern Africa during this period. Seller Inventory # 006924

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Title: Portuguese in South-East Africa 1600-1700

Publisher: Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, South Africa

Publication Date: 1960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

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