Narratives of the Voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa to the Straits of Magellan
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108012876
ISBN-13
9781108012874
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 1st, 2010
Print length
452 Pages
Weight
630 grams
Dimensions
14.10 x 21.60 x 3.00 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasHistory of the Americas
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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1895 volume contains Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa's account of his voyages down the Pacific coast of South America and through the Straits of Magellan in the sixteenth-century.
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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1895 volume contains the first English translation of the then recently discovered reports of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a sixteenth-century Spanish explorer, astronomer, historian and scientist. As commander of the Pacific naval station, he explored the west coast of South America, and founded Spanish settlements (which subsequently failed due to famine) along the Magellan Straits, which he was also the first to survey.
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