Format:
1 Online-Ressource (452 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511708442
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Hakluyt First Series
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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 Gambóa, 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:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108012874
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108012874
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511708442
Author information:
Sarmiento de Gamboa, Pedro 1532-1592
Author information:
Markham, Clements R. 1830-1916
