The Hernando de Soto expedition
By: edited with an introduction by Jerald T. Milanich.
Contributors: Milanich, Jerald T.; Knight of Elvas.; Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557.; Cañete, Sebastián de, 16th cent.
Series: The Spanish borderlands sourcebooks.
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Soto, Hernando de, ca. 1500-1542 -- Manuscripts.; Florida -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish -- Sources.; Florida -- History -- To 1565 -- Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. vii).
Table of contents: title: Contents: Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida as told by a Knight of Elvas and in a relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma, factor of the expedition (1866) / Buckingham Smith, translator; title: A Narrative of de Soto's expedition based on the diary of Rodrigo Ranjel, his private secretary, by Gonzalo Fernandez De Oviedo y Valdés (1904) / Edward Gaylord Bourne, translator; title: The Cañete fragment: another narrative of Hernando de Soto (1982) / Eugene Lyon, editor and translator.