The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493

By:

Christopher Columbus

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Paperback / softback

Series:

American Exploration and Travel Series

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This edition of the "Diario" is the first translation based on the original manuscript, which is an abstraction done in the 1530s by Las Casas from a poor copy of Columbus' journal. With the Spanish - including strike-outs, interpolations and corrections - and the English text on facing pages, it offers scholars the opportunity to fully comprehend the nature of the document. The editors provide thorough historical and linguistic analyses of all the disputed sections of the manuscript, as well as an exact transcription of Las Casas' own words.

Author Biography:

Oliver Dunn received the PH.D. degree from Cornell University. He is Professor Emeritus in Purdue University and a longtime student of Spanish and early history of Spanish America. James E. Kelley, Jr., received the M.A. degree from American University. A mathematician and computer and management consultant by vocation, for the past twenty years he has studied the history of European cartography and navigation in late-medieval times. Both are members of the Society for the History of Discoveries and have written extensively on the history of navigation and on Columbus's first voyage, Although they remain unconvinced of its conclusions, both were consultants to the National geographic Society's 1986 effort to establish Samana Cay as the site of Columbus's first landing.

Release date NZ

September 30th, 1991

Author

Christopher Columbus

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Contributors

Translated by James E. Kelley
Translated by Oliver Dunn

Illustrations

3 black & white illustrations

Pages

504

Series

American Exploration and Travel Series

Dimensions

178x254x25

ISBN-13

9780806123844

Product ID

4113805

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