عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
E141 .O913 2018
E141
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O913
2018
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1469645637
(Number (ISBN
9781469645636
Erroneous ISBN
9780807890325
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Natural history of the West Indies /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo ; translated and edited by Sterling A. Stoudemire.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chapel Hill (N.C.) :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2018]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ;
Volume Designation
no. 32
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Cover; NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WEST INDIES; Title; Copyright; FOREWORD; CONTENTS; Editor's Introduction; Oviedo's Natu.ral History of the West Indies; Glossary of Place Names; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Where the only previous translations of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's Natural History of the West Indies (1555 and 1625) are now unreadable, Sterling A. Stoudemire's translated edition offers this foundational text to the modern reader in an accessible format. The original text, published in 1525, is a beautiful Gothic example of the early Spanish-American chronicle, and is of great rarity. It offers the eyewitness account of a true historian and naturalist, and is the source of some of Europe's first descriptions of the flora and fauna of the Americas. Stoudemire offers comprehensive introductory material on the author of the text and its writing, drawing not only on the original text, but the excellent work of Enrique Alvarez Lopez, a naturalist who has published excellent versions of the Natural History in modern Spanish. This leads Stoudemire's English version to be a beautiful rendition that is both accurate and readable. It presents the heart of Oviedo's work without the interminable unpunctuated sentences of the original, and as such is an excellent introduction to both the Chronicle as a genre, and to Oviedo's oeuvre.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctv763tdq
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Natural history of the West Indies.
Title
Natural history of the West Indies.
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias.
Language (when part of a heading)
English
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Indians of Central America.
Indians of the West Indies.
Natural history-- Central America.
Natural history-- West Indies.
HISTORY-- Expeditions & Discoveries.
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- General.
Indians of Central America.
Indians of the West Indies.
Natural history.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
America, Early accounts to 1600.
America.
Central America.
West Indies.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
HIS-- 036010
HIS-- 051000
LIT-- 004280
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
973
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1/6
Edition
23
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
E141
Book number
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O913
2018
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo,1478-1557
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Stoudemire, Sterling A., (Sterling Aubrey),1902-1992
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20200823025650.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
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ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
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