Caravels, Carracks and Coracoras: Notes on Portuguese Shipping in the Indian Ocean, the Malay Archipelago and the South China Sea in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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A detailed essay describing the variety of historic Portuguese ships that opened up the East Asian trade from Goa to the Moluccas - galleons, caravelles and naus. Illustrated with reconstruction models of six different vessels. Paperback. 16 pages. Good condition. Cat No N152

£ 8.50

Author John Villiers

Publisher Portuguese Embassy Bangkok

Book Condition Good

Binding Paperback

Publication Year 1986

Primary Subject Theory & Practice: Maritime

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