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Natural History of the West Indies by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo ; translated and edited by Sterling A. Stoudemire.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557, author.
- Series:
- North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 32.
- North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 32
- Standardized Title:
- Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history.
- Indians of the West Indies.
- Indians of Central America.
- West Indies.
- Central America.
- America.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (164 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill (N.C.) : Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina, [2018]
- Summary:
- Where the only previous translations of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's Natural History of the West Indies (1555 and 1625) are now unreadable, Sterling A. Stoudemire's translated edition offers this foundational text to the modern reader in an accessible format. The original text, published in 1525, is a beautiful Gothic example of the early Spanish-American chronicle, and is of great rarity. It offers the eyewitness account of a true historian and naturalist, and is the source of some of Europe's first descriptions of the flora and fauna of the Americas. Stoudemire offers comprehensive introductory material on the author of the text and its writing, drawing not only on the original text, but the excellent work of Enrique Alvarez Lopez, a naturalist who has published excellent versions of the Natural History in modern Spanish. This leads Stoudemire's English version to be a beautiful rendition that is both accurate and readable. It presents the heart of Oviedo's work without the interminable unpunctuated sentences of the original, and as such is an excellent introduction to both the Chronicle as a genre, and to Oviedo's oeuvre.
- Contents:
- Cover; NATURAL HISTORY OF THE WEST INDIES; Title; Copyright; FOREWORD; CONTENTS; Editor's Introduction; Oviedo's Natu.ral History of the West Indies; Glossary of Place Names; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4696-4563-7
- OCLC:
- 1057893493
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