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Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513-1548): Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies' Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo
Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513-1548): Book Fifty of the 'General and Natural History of the Indies'
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo
These dramatic tales of seafaring and shipwrecks have been translated into English for the first time from Oviedo’s sixteenth-century reports on the perils and disasters experienced by travellers to and from the New World. These narratives contain important information about colonial navigation, meteorology, geography, shipping, trade routes, and sociology.
252 pages, maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 13, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813035406 |
| Publishers | University Press of Florida |
| Pages | 252 |
| Dimensions | 154 × 233 × 22 mm · 478 g |
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