Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 462 pages) |
Summary |
Annotation. In Nature in the New World (translated 1985), Antonello Gerbiexamines the fascinating reports of the first Europeans to see the Americas. These accounts provided the basis for the images of strange and new flora, fauna, and human creatures that filled European imaginations.<br /><br />Initial chapters are devoted to the writings of Columbus, Vespucci, Cortés, Verrazzano, and others. The second portion of the book concerns the Historia general y natural de las Indias of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, a work commissioned by Charles V of Spain in 1532 but not published in its entirety until the 1850s. Antonello Gerbi contends that Oviedo, a Spanish administrator who lived in Santo Domingo, has been unjustly neglected as a historian. Gerbi shows that Oviedo was a major authority on the culture, history, and conquest of the New World |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 14, 2015) |
Subject |
Natural history -- America -- Pre-Linnean works
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Discoveries in geography -- Spanish
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Natural history
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SUBJECT |
America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004256
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America -- Early works to 1800
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Subject |
America
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Genre/Form |
Early works
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Moyle, Jeremy, translator.
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ISBN |
9780822960805 |
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082296080X |
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9780822973812 |
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0822973812 |
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