Select Letters of Christopher Columbus: With Other Original Documents, Relating to his Four Voyages to the New World

Christopher Columbus, Edited by Richard Henry Major

ISBN 10: 1108011942 / ISBN 13: 9781108011945

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Select Letters of Christopher Columbus: With Other Original Documents, Relating to his Four Voyages to the New World
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108011942
• ISBN 13: 9781108011945
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.54 kilograms

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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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume, first published in 1847 and revised in 1870, 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 languages with an English translation, editor's preface, explanatory notes and index.

Book Description

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This volume, first published in 1847 and revised in 1870, contains an edition of the letters of Christopher Columbus and others describing his first four voyages to the New World.