A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century is part of the Geography catalogue. The record identifies Barbosa, Duarte, 1480?-1521 [Dubious author], Magalhães, Fernão de, -1521 [Dubious author], Stanley, Henry Edward John Stanley, Baron, 1827-1903 [Translator] as the credited author and preserves a link to the source edition.

Edition profile

The extracted text contains approximately 87,635 words, corresponding to an estimated 382 minutes of reading, and is divided into 11 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 29.1 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.098. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

Catalog context

The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: Malay Archipelago -- Description and travel, Arabian Peninsula -- Description and travel, Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800, Africa, East -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, Iran -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, India -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800, Malabar (India) -- Description and travel, China -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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