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Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513?1548)

Book Fifty of the General and Natural History of the Indies

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
Livre relié | Anglais | General and Natural History of the Indies | n° 50
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"Brings alive the culturally rich prose of Spain's first royal eyewitness historian, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. Misfortunes and Shipwrecks offers English-speaking readers a fascinating glimpse into the complex, often disastrous, Spanish Imperial expansion into the Americas."--Kathleen Ann Myers, Indiana University

"A 'hidden' value of the text is in finding slavery, servitude, and 'mixed company' around the edges of an otherwise masculine European story."--Kris Lane, College of William & Mary

"A masterful translation of one of the most entertaining and vibrant chapters of Oviedo's chronicle."--J. Michael Francis, University of North Florida

These dramatic tales of seafaring and shipwrecks have been translated into English for the first time from Oviedo's sixteenth-century reports on the perils and disasters experienced by travelers to and from the New World. These narratives contain important information about colonial navigation, meteorology, geography, shipping, trade routes, and sociology.

Oviedo's goal in writing about these events was not only to share these captivating stories with others but also "so that men may know the many perils that accompany sea travel."

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) was a historian and author of the monumental fifty-book General and Natural History of the Indies, the single most important sixteenth-century source on the early Spanish presence in the New World. Glen F. Dille, emeritus professor of Spanish literature at Bradley University, is the author of Antonio Enríquez Gómez, and the translator and editor of one previous volume of Oviedo's work, Writing from the Edge of the World.

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Nombre de pages :
240
Langue:
Anglais
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Tome:
n° 50

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EAN:
9780813035406
Date de parution :
13-03-11
Format:
Livre relié
Format numérique:
Ongenaaid / garenloos gebonden
Dimensions :
155 mm x 234 mm
Poids :
476 g

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