Reports on the Discovery of Peru - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 110801061X ISBN 13: 9781108010610

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. In this 1872 volume, Clements R. Markham, Honorary Secretary of the Society from 1858 to 1887, and then its President for twenty years, translated and edited four accounts of the Spanish conquest of Peru, written by eye-witnesses including Francisco Pizarro's secretary and his brother Hernando. The narratives include the events surrounding the downfall of the Inca empire; the final document is a notary's account of the distribution of the gold and silver which the Incas paid to the Spaniards as ransom for their ruler.

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1872 volume contains translations of four accounts of the Spanish conquest of Peru by eye-witnesses including Francisco Pizarro's secretary and his brother Hernando.

Contenuti:

Introduction; 1. Report of Francisco de Xeres, secretary to Francisco Pizarro; 2. Report of Miguel de Astete on the expedition to Pachacamac; 3. Letter of Hernando Pizarro to the royal audience of Santo Domingo; 4. Report of Pedro Sancho on the partition of the ransom of Atahuallpa.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 110801061X
• ISBN 13: 9781108010610
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 172
• Redattore: Markham Clements R.