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Authors: Ernle Bradford
Tags: #Expeditions & Discoveries, #Exploration, #History
Otto, Bishop of Freisinger, 68 Ourem, Count of (Braganga’s son), 202
Palermo, 23 Palestine, 93-94 Palma, 192, 217 Paris, University of, 93 Park, Mungo, 219 Payne, E. J., 169 Pedro I of Portugal, 11, 13 Pereira, Nuno Alvares, 12, 27, 38, 44, 55
Perestrello, Bartolomew, 78-79, 86 Peter, Prince, 3, 5-6, 8, 18, 20, 2223, 28, 30, 44, 48, 55, 60, 69,115
118, 126, 139, 141, 143-144, 212, 216, 242; Regent, 151; troubles, 153-158, 160-161, 177, 192-193; regency ends, 198; plot against, 199-211; death of, 211 Philip the Good of Burgundy, 119, 216
Philippa of Hainaut, 13 Philippa, wife of King John, 6-10, 13-16, 27, 31-33 Phoenicians, 4, 18, 64-65, 74, 193 Pillars of Hercules, 17-18, 54, 65 Pina, Ruy de, 204, 211 Plato, 194 Portel, 141
Porto, 5, 15, 30, 90, 157-158, 161, 174, 243
Porto Santo, 76, 78-82, 194, 223, 254
Prester John, 68-69, 86, 180 Prior of St. John, 22-26 Ptolemy (Guide to Geography), 232
Purchas, Samuel, 251
Raposeira, 75, 214, 222, 238 Red Sea, 65
Renaissance, 19, 103, 194 Resgate, Cape, 179 Rimbaud, 123, 171 Rio Grande, 237, 239 Rio de Ouro, 122, 145, 164-165, 168, 218 Roger II of Sicily, 66 Roman Empire, 169 Romans, 4, 18, 119
Safi, 149, 224
Sagres, 36-37, 61-62, 87, 95, 101, 105, 111-113, 141, 144, 149, 163,
205, 214, 216, 221-222, 234, 238, 243-244, 252, 254-255 Sahara, 66, 103, 105, 149, 178-179, 237
St. Anna, Cape, 170 St. Vincent, Cape, 35-36, 112, 222, 254
Sala-ben-Sala, 42, 45^46, 49-50, 120, 130, 133-135, 138-139, 141, 160
San Miguel, 99 Santa Maria, 99 Santarem, 100, 204, 207 Sao Tiago, 235 Sardinia, 17 Sargasso weed, 233 Sea of Darkness, 35, 57, 64, 66, 75, 84
Sebta, 18
Senegal, 66, 104, 176, 180, 185,218, 225-226
Senegambia, 226
Septem Fratres, 18
Serbia, 242
Shakespeare, 161
Sicily, 17, 22-23, 26, 28, 85, 223
Sicily, Queen of, 22-23
Sierra Leone, 237
Sigismund, Emperor, 59
Sines, 51-52
Soto de Cassa, Abbot of, 249 Spain, 17, 26, 110, 170, 193, 196 Spartel, Cape, 54, 56, 139 Spice Islands, 22, 113, 184 Suevi, 74
Symonds, John Addington, 60
Tagus River, 3-4, 29 Tangier, 54^56, 87, 111, 115-116, 118-122, 124-125, 127-135, 224, 245, 248 Tarifa, 40
Teive, Diogo de, 233-234 Teixeira, Tristao Vaz, 77-78, 85-86 Teneriffe, 194 Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 74 Terceira, 254 Tetuan, 128
Timbuktu, 150, 224, 237 Tinoco, Aires, 188-189 Tomar, 254
Tristao, Nuno, 145-149, 165, 170171, 187-188, 222 Tunis, 224
Turkey, 22, 59, 151, 242-243 Turks, 114, 119
Ulysses, 74 Urgel, Count of, 116
Vallarte, see Abelhart the Dane Vaz, Alvaro, 129, 205-210, 212 Venetians, 35, 114, 221-222, 250 Venice, 114^115, 221, 225 Vicente, Martim, 231 Vieyra, Martim, 132-133 Vikings, 74 Vila do Infante, 61 Villa Franca, 99 Vincent, Saint, 36 Viseu, Duke of, see Henry the Navigator Visigoths, 74
Wangara, 150
West Indies, 63, 170, 176, 234 William, Count of Holland, 32 Windward Islands, 234 Wycliffe, John, 6
Zarco, Joao Gongalves, 77-82, 8486,186
Ernle Bradbord has an intimate knowledge of the sea and sailing. During World War II he was continuously in sea-going ships of the Royal Navy for five years, and since 1951 he has spent a great part of his time living and sailing in the Mediterranean in boats of his own. Three times he has crossed the Atlantic under sail.
Born at Sedgeford in Norfolk, England, in 1922, he was educated at the Uppingham School, which he left at the age of eighteen to enlist in the Navy. At the war’s end he had risen to the rank of first lieutenant.
From 1946 to 1949 he participated in the founding and editorial direction of the magazine Antique Dealer and Collectors
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Guide, and later worked for three years as editor of a technical magazine, Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith. In January 1951 he bought his first sailing boat, “Mother Goose,” and since then has divided his time between the sea and his interest in antique jewelry. He has written a number of books and articles on each subject, and also discusses them as a regular broadcaster on the B.B.C.