UID:
almafu_9960117626302883
Format:
1 online resource (xxx, 401 pages, 1 unnumbered plate) :
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map (colour), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-70844-0
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration
Uniform Title:
Relación y derrotero del viage y descubrimiento del Estrecho de Dios, antes llamado de Magallanes.
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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 1895 volume contains the first English translation of the then recently discovered reports of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamba̤, a sixteenth-century Spanish explorer, astronomer, historian and scientist. As commander of the Pacific naval station, he explored the west coast of South America, and founded Spanish settlements (which subsequently failed due to famine) along the Magellan Straits, which he was also the first to survey.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2010.
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Originally published: London: Hakluyt Society, 1895.
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Includes index.
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Translated from the Spanish.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-01287-6
Language:
English
