Spanish Chronicles of the Indies: Sixteenth Century (Twayne's World Authors Series)

Introduces the documentary legacy of Spain's Golden Age eyewitness accounts of the adventures incurred during the course of discovery, conquest, and colonization surveying both the documents themselves and the extant scholarship. Focuses on the chronicles long accepted as the most significant, among them, the writings of Columbus, his son Ferdinand, CortTs, Cabeza de Vaca, Ovido, and Motolinfa. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.