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Travels of Pedro de Cieza de León, A.D. 1532–50

Contained in the First Part of his Chronicle of Peru

Pedro de Cieza de Leon author Clements R Markham translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:20th May '10

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Volume 33 of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1874) contains detailed eye-witness descriptions of sixteenth-century Peru.

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. Pedro de Cierza de León (c.1520–1554) travelled extensively in Peru between 1548 and 1554. This book is the first of two Hakluyt volumes containing an English translation of his observations.The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Pedro de Cierza de León (c.1520–1554) was a Spanish solider who participated in many expeditions throughout South America. Between 1548 and 1553 he travelled across Peru, interviewing local officials and Inca prisoners and collecting information about the landscape and indigenous people. Volume 33 of the Hakluyt series, first published in 1874 and reissued here, begins the first English translation of his work, which was continued in Volume 68 (1883). This volume contains detailed descriptions of the geography of Peru and an ethnographical account of different indigenous cultures.

ISBN: 9781108013345

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 30mm

Weight: 660g

524 pages