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The Latin American Ecocultural Reader
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 …
Historia General Y Natural De Las Indias V1, Part 2
Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513-1548)
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 …
Writing from the Edge of the World
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo is the 16th-century author of ""Historia general y natural de las Indias"", a general and natural history of the peoples and places he encountered in …
De la natural hystoria de las Indias
The first edition (Toledo, 1526) is here reproduced in facsimile in honor of Professor Sterling A. Stoudemire. Oviedo, an official chronicler of the Indies, describes in naive but …