Research Catalog

Title

The discovery of the Amazon according to the account of Friar Gaspar de Carvajal and other documents, as published with an introduction by José Toribio Medina; translated from the Spanish by Bertram T. Lee; edited by H.C. Heaton ...

Author

Carvajal, Gaspar de, 1504-1584.

Publication

New York, American Geographical Society, 1934.

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Additional Authors

• Medina, José Toribio, 1852-1930.
• Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557.
• Lee, Bertram T.
• Heaton, H. C. (Harry Clifton), 1885-

Description

xiv p., 4 ℓ., 7-467 p. illus. (map, facsims.); 26 cm.

Series Statement

American Geographical Society. Special publication no. 17

Subjects

• America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish
• Amazon River > Discovery and exploration
• Orellana, Francisco de, -approximately 1546

Note

• Includes reproduction and English translation of original (Sevilla, 1894) t.-p.

Contents

pt. I. Introduction by Medina.--pt. II. Carvajal's account.--pt. III. Documents.--Appendix: Selections from Oviedo's "Historia de las Indias" bearing on Orellana's two expeditions.

Call Number

HFY (Carvajal, G. de. Discovery of the Amazon)

LCCN

34007762

OCLC

358733

Author

Carvajal, Gaspar de, 1504-1584.

Title

The discovery of the Amazon according to the account of Friar Gaspar de Carvajal and other documents, as published with an introduction by José Toribio Medina; translated from the Spanish by Bertram T. Lee; edited by H.C. Heaton ...

Imprint

New York, American Geographical Society, 1934.

Series

American Geographical Society. Special publication no. 17

Added Author

Medina, José Toribio, 1852-1930.

Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557.

Lee, Bertram T. Translator

Heaton, H. C. (Harry Clifton), 1885-

Research Call Number

HFY (Carvajal, G. de. Discovery of the Amazon)