Expeditions Into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639

ISBN 10: 0511695845 ISBN 13: 9780511695841

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1859 volume contains three accounts of the Amazon region, all translated from the Spanish and covering the century 1539–1639: The Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro to the Land of Cinnamon; The Voyage of Francisco de Orellana down the River of the Amazons; and the New Discovery of the Great River of the Amazons, by Cristoval de Acuña. An editorial introduction provides a context for the narratives, and an appendix lists the principal tribes of the Amazon, and the sources of this information.

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This 1859 volume contains three accounts of the Amazon region, all translated from Spanish and covering the century 1539–1639. They reveal both the internal wrangling among the Spaniards and the external difficulties they faced.

Contenuti:

Introduction; 1. Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro; 2. The voyage of Francisco de Orellana; 3. New discovery of the great river of the Amazons; 4. List of the principal tribes in the valley of the Amazons.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0511695845
• ISBN 13: 9780511695841
• Rilegatura: Printed Access Code