Misfortunes and Shipwrecks in the Seas of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea (1513–1548) [electronic resource] : Book Fifty of the General and Natural History of the Indies /
Fernández de Oviedo y Valdes, Gonzalo,1478-1557.
Dille, Glen F.,1940-
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2011.
These tales of seafaring and shipwrecks have been translated into English from Oviedo's 16th-century reports on the perils and disasters experienced by travellers to and from the New World. These narratives contain important information about colonial navigation, meteorology, geography, shipping, trade routes, and sociology.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
These tales of seafaring and shipwrecks have been translated into English from Oviedo's 16th-century reports on the perils and disasters experienced by travellers to and from the New World. These narratives contain important information about colonial navigation, meteorology, geography, shipping, trade routes, and sociology.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-201) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Shipwrecks
Shipwrecks