num_pages: 340
description: When the famous anthropologist Claude Lvi-Strauss arrived in Rio de Janeiro he had one book in his Jean de Lry's History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil . Lry had undertaken his fascinating and arduous voyage in 1556 as a youthful member of the first Protestant mission to the New World. Janet Whatley presents the first complete English translation of one of the most vivid early European accounts of life in the New World.
language: English
title: History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (Volume 6)
publisher: University of California Press