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History of the New World - Shewing His Travels in America, from A.D. 1541 to 1556: with Some Particulars of the Island of Canary (Paperback)
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History of the New World - Shewing His Travels in America, from A.D. 1541 to 1556: with Some Particulars of the Island of Canary (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series
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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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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, published in
1857, contains Girolamo Benzoni's History of the New World,
originally published in Venice in 1565. The book is not only a
history of the New World since Columbus' discovery but an account
of what Benzoni himself saw, when 'being like many others anxious
to see the world, and hearing of those countries of the Indians,
recently found, called by everybody the New World, I determined to
go there'. It includes severe criticism of the Spanish colonists'
treatment of the indigenous inhabitants.
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