Castro Joam (1 results)

Paris, Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1936. Wrappers, uncut. With 3 illustrations and 25 plates. 202 pp. Voyage from Goa to Suez by Dom Joao de Castro (1500-1548), who led a fleet of 60 ships with orders from Vasco de Gama to attack the Turks in the Red Sea area and control their possession in trade. The expedition succeeded in occupying Aden, Socotra, Bab el-Mandeb, Assab, Masawi'h, Suwakim, Port Sudan and Tour Sinai.…