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Jean Paul Duviols
This fully illustrated book is focused on the human relations between the different Guarani groups that the Jesuit Missionaries had gathered in the converse native villages, also known as reducciones.
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Historia, Literatura, Ciencias, Arte, Arqueologaia, Etnologaia, Mausica, Tradiciones populares, Biografaias –Cover.
Amerigo Vespucci’s reputation today is intertwined by a long and passionate controversy: is indeed this Florentine navigator and astronomer known solely because he left his name to the New World…
This illustrated edition by the French Sorbonne Professor Jean-Paul Duviols is conceived to reveal the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the New World by discussing the Diary of the First…
Hans Staden
Translation of: Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen.
Auguste Guinnard
Three years of captivity among the Patagones is an exceptional ethnological document, but to its documentary value it adds the attraction and intensity of an adventures novel. It narrates the…
Accarette du Biscay
There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he…
Bartolome de las Casas
The painful and violent testimony of cruelties incurred by the Spanish conquistadors in the new world, concisely depicted by Bartolome de Las Casas in his Brevisima relacion de la destruycion…
Jacques Lemoyne de Morgues
In the second part of his work Great Voyages (1591) the engraver, printer and publisher Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) evokes the adventures of a French Calvinist group that commanded by…
Thomas Hariot,Dr John White, PH D (Anglia Ruskin University UK)
At head of title: Teodoro de Bry, Americae Pars, nunc Virginia dicta. (1590).
