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" The Natural and Moral History of the Indies. "
Joseph de Acosta, Edited by Clements R. Markham, Translated by Edward Grimston.
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675147
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b504336
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Acosta, José de,1540-1600
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The Natural and Moral History of the Indies.\ Joseph de Acosta, Edited by Clements R. Markham, Translated by Edward Grimston.
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press.
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Place of publication not identified :: publisher not identified,, 1880.
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Cambridge library collection. Hakluyt First Series.
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1 online resource (284 pages) :: digital, PDF file(s)
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9780511697623 (ebook)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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| Abstract
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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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 volume, first published in 1880, translates the first detailed description of the geography and indigenous culture of South America, written by Joseph de Acosta (1540-1600) and published in Spanish in 1590. Acosta was one of the first explorers to record and analyse the geophysical phenomena of the 'New World' and attempt to explain them scientifically. Volume 2 contains Books 5-7 of Acosta's work, describing the life of the indigenous population and including a brief history of the end of the Inca empire.
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Indians of Mexico.
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Indians of South America-- Peru.
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Natural history-- Latin America.
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America, Early accounts to 1600.
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Latin America.
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Grimeston, Edward
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Markham, Clements R., (Clements Robert),Sir,1830-1916
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The Natural & Moral History of the Indies.
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