The Life of Prince Henry of Portugal, Surnamed the Navigator, and Its Results

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Excerpt from The Life of Prince Henry of Portugal, Surnamed the Navigator, and Its Results: Comprising the Discovery, Within One Century, of Half the World With the History of the Naming of America Till a comparatively recent date, it is true, the materials for anything approaching to a satisfactory biography had not been brought within the reach of the historical student. The Livy of Portugal, as he has been called, J 050 de Barres, had handed down to us some incomplete details from the scattered papers of a contemporaneous historian whose collected work has, as we shall presently see, recently been made public property. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.