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Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto
1846–1900
Best known for a dramatic crossing of southern Africa, this Portuguese explorer wrote with the urgency of someone who had tested every mile himself. His travels helped make him one of the most recognized Portuguese expedition leaders of the late 19th century.
2 Audiobooks
Como eu atravessei Àfrica do Atlantico ao mar Indico, volume primeiro
by Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto
Como eu atravessei Àfrica do Atlantico ao mar Indico, volume segundo
by Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto
About the author
Born in Portugal in 1846, Serpa Pinto was a soldier, explorer, and later a colonial administrator. He is most closely associated with expeditions in southern and central Africa, where he traveled in difficult conditions and became widely known for crossing the continent from the Atlantic side toward the southeast.
His writing grew out of those journeys, combining firsthand observation with the adventure and strain of long-distance exploration. Readers often come to his work for the sense of movement, risk, and encounter that shaped European travel writing of the period.
He died in Lisbon in 1900. Today he is remembered chiefly for his African expeditions and for the books that carried those experiences to a broader public.