The early Spanish Main
By: by Carl Ortwin Sauer ; with a new foreword by Anthony Pagden.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Indians of the West Indies -- First contact with Europeans.; Spanish Main.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Spanish.; Caribbean Area -- Historical geography.
Description: Provides a narative of Columbus's four voyages to America and the colonizing ventures that followed them. Also explores the impact of these ventures on the peoples, flora, and fauna of the Americas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Centennial book"--P. [iii].
Spine subtitle: The land, nature, and people Columbus encountered in the Americas.