Pietro's Pilgrimage. A Journey to India and back at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century

Blunt, Wilfred [Scawen]

London: James Barrie, 1953. Hardcover. xii, 320p., scattered period illustrations in b&w, the hardbound first edition in not quite collectable condition, but a good reading copy: spine panel is sunned with the light blue of the covers faded to grey, covers look a little "handled," a copyright cancellation strip has bled through onto titlepage, lacks the dust jacket, text pages are entirely clean and unmarked, and textblock and casing together are square and sound. A useful book as is.

Pietro spent two years in unsanitary Roman Catholic prisons where he could hear the screams of people on the rack. He was very tempted to suicide.

Cat.No: 263824

Price: $12.00