Expeditions into the Valley of the Amazons, 1539, 1540, 1639 [Paperback]

This volume, published in 1859, contains three Spanish accounts of the Amazon region in 15391639, translated into English.The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This 1859 volume contains three accounts of the Amazon region, all translated from Spanish and covering the century 15391639. They reveal both the internal wrangling among the Spaniards and the external difficulties they faced.The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This 1859 volume contains three accounts of the Amazon region, all translated from Spanish and covering the century 15391639. They reveal both the internal wrangling among the Spaniards and the external difficulties they faced.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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 1859 volume contains three accounts of the Amazon region, all translated from the Spanish and covering the century 15391639: The Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro to the Land of Cinnamon; The Voyage of Francisco de Orellana down the River of the Amazons; and the New Discovery of the Great River of the Amazons, by Cristoval de Acu?a. An editorial introduction provides a context for the narratives, and an appendix lists the principal tribes of the Amazon, and the sources of this information.Introduction; 1. Expedition of Gonzalo Pizarro; 2. The voyage of Francisco de Orellana; 3. New discovery of the great river of the Amazons; 4. List of the principal tribes in the valley of the Amazons.