The land of the great image, by Maurice Collis Children's

The land of the great image, by Maurice Collis Children'sHardcover, no dust jacket, very good condition, inscribed A hybrid of history and biography, Maurice Colliss The Land of the Great Image concerns a little known Portuguese friar abroad in early seventeenth century Asia. The book chronicles the great diplomatic coup of Friar Manriques career, opening the kingdom of Arakan, now Burma (land of the great image of the Buddha) to the Church and to Portuguese trade, Dispatched from Goa, capital of the now

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