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Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada
1846–1928
An army officer, explorer, and colonial administrator, he wrote vivid travel accounts drawn from his expeditions in southeastern Africa. His surviving books offer a firsthand look at Portuguese exploration in the late nineteenth century.
2 Audiobooks
Relatorio de uma viagem ás terras dos Landins
by Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada
Relatorio de uma viagem ás terras do Changamira
by Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada
About the author
Born in 1846 and died in 1928, Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada was a Portuguese military officer whose career extended into exploration and colonial administration. Sources consistently describe him as a soldier, an explorer in Africa, and an administrator linked to the Companhia de Moçambique.
He is especially remembered as the author of travel narratives based on journeys in the region then tied to Portuguese activity in southeastern Africa. Two works that remain associated with him are Relatorio de uma viagem ás terras dos Landins and Relatorio de uma viagem ás terras do Changamira, which help place him among the period's soldier-writers and expedition chroniclers.
Historical references also connect him with efforts to develop Portuguese commercial and political interests in Mozambique, and with the founding history of the Companhia de Moçambique. For today's readers, his books are most interesting as direct, period voices from the world of nineteenth-century exploration, empire, and travel writing.