Narratives of the Voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa to the Straits of Magellan

Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa author Clements R Markham editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:1st Jul '10

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Narratives of the Voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa to the Straits of Magellan cover

A sixteenth-century account of navigation through the Straits of Magellan, and the unsuccessful Spanish settlement there.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1895 volume contains Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa's account of his voyages down the Pacific coast of South America and through the Straits of Magellan in the sixteenth-century.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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 1895 volume contains the first English translation of the then recently discovered reports of Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa, a sixteenth-century Spanish explorer, astronomer, historian and scientist. As commander of the Pacific naval station, he explored the west coast of South America, and founded Spanish settlements (which subsequently failed due to famine) along the Magellan Straits, which he was also the first to survey.

ISBN: 9781108012874

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 26mm

Weight: 570g

452 pages