TY - BOOK AU - Brito,Bernardo Gomes de AU - Boxer,C.R. TI - The tragic history of the sea, 1589-1622: narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen São Thomé (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), São João Baptista (1622), and the journeys of the survivors in South East Africa T2 - Works issued by the Hakluyt Society SN - 9781409417170 AV - G161 .H2 2d ser., no. 112 U1 - 946.902 PY - 1959/// CY - Cambridge PB - Published by the Hakluyt Society at the University Press KW - Shipwrecks KW - Merchant marine KW - Portugal KW - Naufrages KW - Marine marchande KW - shipwrecks KW - aat KW - HISTORY KW - Europe KW - Spain & Portugal KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Travel KW - Africa, East KW - Description and travel KW - Africa, Eastern KW - Afrique orientale KW - Descriptions et voyages KW - Afrique orientale anglophone KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index; Narrative of the shipwreck of the great ship São Thomé, in the land of the Fumos, in the year 1589 / Diogo do Couto -- Shipwreck of the great ship Santo Alberto, and itinerary of the people, who were saved from it, 1593 / João Baptista Lavanha -- Treatise of the misfortune that befell the great ship São João Baptista, 1622 / Francisco Vaz d'Almada -- Appendices. Pay and allowances of the complement of a typical Portuguese East Indiaman, c. 1600 -- Provisions of an outward-bound Portuguese East Indiaman, c. 1600 -- Allotment of deck and cargo space in a homeward-bound Portuguese East Indiaman, c. 1600 -- Allowance of liberty-chests on board a Portuguese East Indiaman, c. 1620 N2 - These three narratives are representative of a number of shipwrecks of homeward-bound ships off the coast of Natal where the survivors tried to march overland to the Portuguese trading stations. They give information about the obverse side of Portuguese East India trade and about the historical ethnography of South East Africa UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=508169 ER -