Colonial travelers in Latin America.
By: Edited with an introduction by Irving  A. Leonard.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Borzoi books on Latin America
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Latin America -- Description and travel.; America -- Discovery and exploration.
Table of contents: title: The Atlantic crossing of Father Tomás de la Torre (1544); title: Carvajal's account of the discovery of the Amazon (1542); title: Robert Tomson's voyage to the West Indies and Mexico (1555-1558); title: Journey of Francesco Carletti to South America and Mexico (1594-1596); title: Anonymous description of Peru (1600-1615); title: Visit of Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa to Cajamarca, Peru (1615); title: Acarete du Biscay's journey from Buenos Aires to Potosi (1658); title: The Pacific crossing of Gemelli-Careri (1697-1698); title: Voyage of Amedée Frezier to South America (1712-1714); title: The expulsion of the Jesuits from Paraguay as recounted by Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1767); title: Concolorcorvo's description of travel by carreta in the Argentine (1773); title: John Mawe's journey into the interior of Brazil (1809); title: Travels of Alexander von Humboldt among the Carib Indians of Venezuela (1800); title: Bibliography (p. [231]-232)