Andrew Battell: 2 books

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell - of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly...

Thomas Turner,1 although he furnished Samuel Purchas with a few notes on Brazil, never placed on record what happened to him whilst in Portuguese Africa. Towres was sent to prison at Rio de Janeiro for the heinous offence of eating meat on a Friday; he attempted an escape, was retaken, and condemned...