The Expedition of Pedro De Ursua and Lope De Aguirre in Search of El Dorado and Omagua in 1560-1

Translated from Fray Pedro Simon's Sixth Historical Notice of the Conquest of Tierra Firme by William Bollaert

By:

Pedro Simon

Format:

Paperback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection- Hakluyt First Series

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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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 1861 volume contains a translation, preceded by an introductory essay, of a narrative by Pedro Simon (b. 1565) describing perhaps the most notorious of the many sixteenth-century expeditions of European soldiers of fortune into the unexplored areas of South America. A band of quarrelling and murderous booty-hunters, motivated by reports of the fabulous wealth of the Inca empire and legends of the golden land of El Dorado, was led by Lope de Aguirre, whose cruelty and treachery themselves became legendary.

Release date Australia

April 8th, 2010

Author

Pedro Simon

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Translated by William Bollaert

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

1 map

Imprint

Cambridge University Press

Pages

318

Publisher

Cambridge Library Collection

Series

Cambridge Library Collection- Hakluyt First Series

Dimensions

140x216x18

ISBN-13

9781108010672

Product ID

6399238

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