Alejandro Malaspina
Subtitle: Portrait of a Visionary
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780773518308
Subjects: Biography: general; Geographical discovery & exploration; Discovery And Exploration (General); Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Adventurers & Explorers; Historical - General; Biography; Discoveries in geography; Explorers; Spain; Spanish
Description: "Alejandro Malaspina: Portrait of a Visionary chronicles the life of an eighteenth-century Italian navigator in the service of Spain whose thirst for knowledge and adventure took him on a five-year voyage throughout Spain's Pacific possessions. On his return he was imprisoned because his ideas for establishing a modern enlightened state in Spain ran counter to those of the entrenched imperial bureaucracy. Using Malaspina's writings, including the journal of his great voyage and his personal letters, John Kendrick makes the life of this extraordinary man available for the first time in English."--BOOK JACKET.