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  • Yucatan Before and After the Conquest

    by Diego de Landa ...
    Series series Native American
    These people also used certain characters or letters, with which they wrote in their books about the antiquities and their sciences. We found a great number of books in these letters and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which they took most grievously, and which gave them great pain.So writes Friar Diego de Landa in his Relación De las ... Read more

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  • History of the Incas

    by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa ...
    According to Wikipedia: "Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (15321592) was a Galician (Spanish) explorer, author, historian, astronomer, and scientist… Written in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, just forty years after the arrival of the first Spaniards in the city, Sarmiento's The History of the Incas contains extremely detailed descriptions of Inca history and mythology. The royal sponsorship of ... Read more

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  • History of the Philippine Islands

    by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Antonio de Morga ...
    In this volume is presented the first installment of Dr. Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. Events here described cover the years 1493-1603, and the history proper of the islands from 1565. Morga's work is important, as being written by a royal official and a keen observer and participator in affairs. Consequently he touches more on the practical everyday affairs of the islands, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Parts One and Two

    by Garcilaso de la Vega ...
    Translated by Harold V. Livermore ...
    The two-part classic history of the Incan empire's origin and growth, as well as their demise following the arrival of the Spaniards.Garcilaso de la Vega, the first native of the New World to attain importance as a writer in the Old, was born in Cuzco in 1539, the illegitimate son of a Spanish cavalier and an Inca princess. Although he was educated as a gentleman of Spain and won an important ... Read more

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  • Yucatan Before and After the Conquest

    The Maya

    by Diego de Landa Calderon ...
    Translated by William Gates ...
    A rare firsthand account of Maya life emerges from the same figure responsible for erasing much of it. This translation presents Diego de Landa's defense of his actions in 1562, offering one of the few surviving descriptions of Maya society, ritual practice, scientific knowledge, and artistic traditions before Spanish domination.Framed by William Gates's detailed contextual notes, the text ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Popol Vuh

    by Anonymous ...
    "Of all the American people , the Quiché region of Guatemala have left us the richest mythological legacy. The story of creation, which appears in the Popol Vuh, which may be called the national book of the Quiché, in its rude and strange eloquence and poetic originality, is one of the most unique relics of indigenous thought". This is what reminds us the americanist Brancoft about a text that has ... Read more

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  • The Travels of Mendes Pinto

    by Fernão Mendes Pinto ...
    The immortal work of travel and adventure by the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer, now available in a sparkling English translation.This work by Fernão Mendes Pinto, presented as his incredible-yet-true autobiography, came second only to Marco Polo's work in exciting Europe's imagination of the Orient. Chronicling adventures from Ethiopia to Japan, Travels covers twenty years of Mendes Pinto ... Read more

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  • History of the Inca Empire

    An Account of the Indians' Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions

    by Father Bernabe Cobo ...
    Translated by Roland Hamilton ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the original document, Roland Hamilton has translated that part of Cobo's massive manuscripts that focuses on the history of the kingdom of Peru. The volume includes a general account of the aspect, character, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Spanish Conquest of the Americas

    by Irving Richman ...
    The Spaniard of the fifteenth century is recognizable by well-defined traits: he was primitive, he was proud, he was devout, and he was romantic. His primitiveness we detect in his relish for blood and suffering; his pride in his austerity and exclusiveness; his devoutness in his mystical exaltation of the Church; and his romanticism in his passion for adventure.After printing had spread in Spain, ... Read more

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  • The History of Cuba, vol. 1

    by Willis Fletcher Johnson ...
    "The History of Cuba, vol. 1" by Willis Fletcher Johnson offers a comprehensive exploration of Cuba's rich and complex past. This volume delves into the island's early history, from its indigenous peoples to the arrival of Spanish colonizers. Johnson meticulously details the socio-political dynamics that shaped Cuba, providing readers with a vivid portrayal of its cultural evolution. His narrative ... Read more

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  • El Cid - The Greatest Epic of Spanish Literature

    by Anon ...
    The legend of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar also known as El Cid is a huge part of the Spanish psyche and the epic tale of his victories against the moors is the subject of the oldest extant Spanish epic poem. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high ... Read more

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  • The Myths of Mexico and Peru

    by Lewis Spence ...
    In recent years a reawakening has taken place in the study of American archæology and antiquities, owing chiefly to the labours of a band of scholars in the United States and a few enthusiasts in the continent of Europe. For the greater part of the nineteenth century it appeared as if the last word had been written upon Mexican archæology. The lack of excavations and exploration had cramped the ... Read more

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