Ebook: Natural History of the West Indies
- Tags: America -- Early accounts to 1600, Indians of the West Indies, Indians of Central America, Natural history -- West Indies, Natural history -- Central America, HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General, HISTORY -- Expeditions & Discoveries, Natural history, America, Central America, West Indies
- Series: North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures no. 32
- Year: 1959
- Publisher: Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina
- City: Array, Central America., West Indies.
- Language: English, Spanish
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Where the only previous translations of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's Natural History of the West Indies (1555 and 1625) are now unreadable, Sterling A. Stoudemire's translated edition offers this foundational text to the modern reader in an accessible format. The original text, published in 1525, is a beautiful Gothic example of the early Spanish-American chronicle, and is of great rarity. It offers the eyewitness Read more...