Select Letters of Christopher Columbus
With Other Original Documents, Relating to His Four Voyages to the New World

An 1847 edition of the letters of Christopher Columbus describing his voyages of exploration to the New World.

Christopher Columbus (Author), Richard Henry Major (Edited and translated by)

9781108007993, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 February 2010

346 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.44 kg

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volume 2, published in 1847, consists of letters of Christopher Columbus to the Treasurer of the King and Queen of Spain, describing his first, third and fourth voyages, and a letter from Diego Alvarez Chanca, a royal physician who went on the second voyage and reported his experiences to the town council of Seville. In this edition by R. H. Major, the letters are given in the original Latin and Spanish with an English translation, editor's preface, explanatory notes and index.

Editor's preface
Introduction
La lettera
1. First voyage of Columbus
2. Second voyage of Columbus
3. Third voyage of Columbus
4. Fourth voyage of Columbus
Index.

Subject Areas: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]