Joseph de Acosta, Edited by Clements R. Markham, Translated by Edward Grimston.
Volume Designation
Volume 2,dollar5The Moral History /
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge :
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Place of publication not identified :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press.
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
publisher not identified,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1880.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (284 pages) :
Other Physical Details
digital, PDF file(s)
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge library collection. Hakluyt First Series.
GENERAL NOTES
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 1880, translates the first detailed description of the geography and indigenous culture of South America, written by Joseph de Acosta (1540-1600) and published in Spanish in 1590. Acosta was one of the first explorers to record and analyse the geophysical phenomena of the 'New World' and attempt to explain them scientifically. Volume 2 contains Books 5-7 of Acosta's work, describing the life of the indigenous population and including a brief history of the end of the Inca empire.
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
The Natural & Moral History of the Indies.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Indians of Mexico.
Indians of South America-- Peru.
Natural history-- Latin America.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
America, Early accounts to 1600.
Latin America.
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PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Acosta, José de,1540-1600
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Grimeston, Edward
Markham, Clements R., (Clements Robert),Sir,1830-1916