Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555) - Translated for the Hakluyt Society With Notes and an Introduction

Klappentext This 1891 volume presents conflicting sixteenth-century accounts of the Spanish conquest of the basin of the River Plate. Zusammenfassung The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1891 volume contains opposing accounts! one German and one Spanish! of Spanish activities in South America in the mid-sixteenth century! together with a short narrative by Hernando de Ribera. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Bibliography; Voyage of Ulrich Schmidt; The Commentaries of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca; Narrative of Hernando de Ribera; Index.

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• Authors: Luis L. Dominguez
• Assisted by: Luis L. Dominguez (Editor), Dominguez Luis L. (Editor), Dominguez Luis L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2010
• EAN: 9781108013505
• ISBN: 978-1-108-01350-5
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Latin America / General, History of the Americas