PRINCE HENRY 'THE NAVIGATOR' - A LIFE.(Review)

African Business | November 1, 2000| | Copyright

By Peter Russell

[pound]20 Yale Univeristy Press

ISBN 0-300-08233-9

At around the time that the Chinese Emperor, Cheng Ho, was receiving a giraffe at the gates of his inner palace in Beijing, the gift of the King of Malindi of East Africa, a young prince was leading an attack on Ceuta on the North African coast. That prince, distinguishing himself with almost fool hardy courage in the battle, could claim aristocratic British, Spanish and French blood - but owed patriotic allegiance to his father, King Joao I, the king of Portugal. His name was ...

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