Select Letters of Christopher Columbus: With Other Original Documents, Relating to His Four Voyages to the New World (Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series) - Softcover

Columbus, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108007996 ISBN 13: 9781108007993

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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.

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Book Description

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume contains an 1847 edition of the letters of Christopher Columbus and others describing his first four voyages to the New World.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108007996
• ISBN 13: 9781108007993
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346