MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN ACCRA. Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
New York: Knopf, 2013. First United States Edition. Hardcover. In 1974, an English archaeologist discovered a manuscript in Accra, the present capital of Ghana; carbon dating showed that it had originated in 1307. Written in Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin, the document describes a meeting in the year 1099 between the..... More