The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622: Narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Spo ThomT (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), Spo Jopo Baptista (1622) and the journeys of the survivors in South East Africa

Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, Joatilde;o Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated from the original editions of accounts which were subsequently included in the Histoacute;ria Traacute;gico-Mariacute;tima edited by Bernardo Gomes de Brito at Lisbon in 1735-6. The introduction and appendices discuss the 'Carreira da Iacute;ndia''. For a further selection from the same source, see Second Series 132. First published: 1959.