UID:
edocfu_9960119502302883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 256 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-69762-7
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration
Uniform Title:
Historia natural y moral de las Indias.
Content:
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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 volume, first published in 1880, translates the first detailed description of the geography and indigenous culture of South America, written by Joseph de Acosta (1540-1600) and published in Spanish in 1590. Acosta was one of the first explorers to record and analyse the geophysical phenomena of the 'New World' and explain them scientifically. Volume 2 contains Books 5-7 of Acosta's work, describing the life of the indigenous people and a brief history of the end of the Inca empire.
Note:
"Reprinted from the English translated edition of Edward Grimston, 1604"--original title page.
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PDF title page erroneously states that this is volume 1, and the title page verso relates to volume 1 also.
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Translated from the Spanish.
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Also issued in print: 2010.
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Originally published: London: The Hakluyt Society, 1880.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-01152-7
Language:
English
