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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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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. Volume 2, published in
1847, consists of letters of Christopher Columbus to the Treasurer
of the King and Queen of Spain, describing his first, third and
fourth voyages, and a letter from Diego Alvarez Chanca, a royal
physician who went on the second voyage and reported his
experiences to the town council of Seville. In this edition by R.
H. Major, the letters are given in the original Latin and Spanish
with an English translation, editor's preface, explanatory notes
and index.
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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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. Volume 86, published in
1893, contains a translation of the journal of Christopher Columbus
during his first voyage, together with documents relating to the
subsequent voyages of John and Sebastian Cabot and Gaspar Corte
Real. Cabot was commissioned by Henry VII to explore in English
interests. Less well known to most readers, Corte Real was a
Portuguese who was sent by King Manuel I to look for a passage to
Asia but seems to have reached only Greenland and north-east Canada
before being lost.
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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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 1847 and revised in 1870, consists of letters of
Christopher Columbus to the Treasurer of the King and Queen of
Spain, describing his first, third and fourth voyages, and a letter
from Diego Alvarez Chanca, a royal physician who went on the second
voyage and reported his experiences to the town council of Seville.
In this edition by R. H. Major, the letters are given in the
original languages with an English translation, editor's preface,
explanatory notes and index.
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The Latin American Ecocultural Reader (Paperback)
Gisela Heffes, Jennifer French; Contributions by Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Fern andez de Oviedo y Vald es, Fray Bartolome de las Casas, …
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R1,370
Discovery Miles 13 700
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology
of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The
selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries
and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present.
Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical
figures, including JosE MartI, BartolomE de las Casas, RubEn DarIo,
and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of
environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their
celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that
illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women,
indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is
introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of
their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of
which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the
political, economic and environmental history of the time and
provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow.The
editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview
of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s.
They argue that various strands of environmental thought -
recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian
ontologies, and so forth - can be traced back through the centuries
to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the
Americas as an edenic 'New World' and appropriated the bodies of
enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.
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