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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of
Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event
that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts
collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout
the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America,
although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus himself is
revealed as a fascinating and contradictory figure, fluctuating
from awed enthusiasm to paranoia and eccentric geographical
speculation. Prey to petty quarrels with his officers, his pious
desire to bring Christian civilization to 'savages' matched by his
rapacity for gold, Columbus was nonetheless an explorer and seaman
of staggering vision and achievement.
As Copied Out In Brief By Bartholomew Las Casas, One Of His
Companions.
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The Book of Prophecies V3 (Paperback)
Christopher Columbus, Roberto Rusconi; Translated by Blair Sullivan
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R1,221
R977
Discovery Miles 9 770
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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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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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