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Discovery & ExplorationWhen ordering, please quote the reference number 344 - 09Ships of Discovery andExplorationby Lincoln P PaineThis book tells the stories of 125 vessels that haveplayed important roles in voyages of geographicalexploration and scientific discovery, from earlyPolynesian double canoes to the most technicallysophisticated submersibles.160p, illus (Mariner Books 2000) paperback,9780395984154, $17.00. Reduced to $6.98The Strange and DangerousVoyage of Capt. Thomas Jamesby Thomas James, edited by W A Kenyon146p (Royal Ontario Museum 1975) hardback,9780888541710, $10.00. Reduced to $2.98New WorldsThe Great Voyages of Discovery 1400–1600by Ronald H FritzeThe period 1400-1600 was a great period ofexploration, of dramatic change and excitementwhere new geographical and cultural horizons werereached. This book retells the story of Europeanexploration and expansion, beginning with theirbiased and inaccurate knowledge of foreignparts, notably Africa and Asia, and the effects ofvoyages of discovery by people such as Henry theNavigator, Columbus, da Gama, Cabot and Drake,had on European society and the economy.285p, col & b/w pls (Sutton 2002) hardback,9780750923460, $36.95. Reduced to $19.98Historic Maritime Mapsby Donald WigalThe selection of maps in this book dates fromthe 12th to the 18th century. While they mayappear quite primitive to our eyes, they reveal thesteady progress of the earliest seafarers in theirdetermination to conquer the sea. What they lackin geographical accuracy, they make up for incharm.255p (Parkstone Press 2007) hardback,9781844843893, $39.95. Reduced to $19.98Hakluyt’s Promise:An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English Americaby Peter C. MancallRichard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporaryof William Shakespeare, advocated the creationof English colonies in the New World at a timewhen the advantages of this idea were far fromself-evident. This book describes in detail thelife and times of Hakluyt, a trained minister whobecame an editor of travel accounts. “Hakluyt’sPromise” demonstrates his prominent role inthe establishment of English America as well ashis interests in English opportunities in the EastIndies. The volume presents nearly 50 illustrations- many unpublished since the sixteenth century -and offers a fresh view of Hakluyt’s milieu and thecentral concerns of the Elizabethan age.400p (Yale University Press 2007) Hardback. $40.00Reduced to $12.98Repertorium Columbianum10-volume setThe REPERTORIUM COLUMBIANUM is a collectionof contemporary sources relating to Columbuss fourvoyages, and the interpenetration of hitherto separateworlds that resulted from them. This multi-volume seriesprovides in readily accessible form the basic documentsthat are the starting-point for research into this pivotalmoment in world history; they form the indispensabletools for all scholarly enquiry into the encounter. Theseries provides accurate editions of the essential texts intheir original languages for the use of specialists, whileat the same time making them available to students andscholars in related fields through parallel translationsinto modern English. The Repertoriums scope isgenerally limited to sources from the period betweenColumbuss first voyage and the Spanish conquestof Mexico in 1519-1521. The series concludes withpublication of Volume 13 in December 2003.This set is comprised of Volumes 4 - 13. (RepertoriumColumbianum, Brepols Publishers)Hardback. $1,092.00.Reduced to $550.00The Histories of the Life and Deedsof the Admiral Christopher Columbusby Luzzana CaraciThe Histories of the Life and Deeds of theAdmiral Christopher Columbus, attributed tohis son Fernando Colon (1488-1539), is oneof the most important first-hand sources forColumbus’s voyages, and for the intellectualand political context in which they occurred.Originally written in Spanish, it was publishedin Venice in 1571 in an Italian translation byAlfonso de Ulloa. Drawing on different sourcesfrom those used by Las Casas and Oviedo intheir contemporary narratives, it provides acomprehensive view of the entire Columbianenterprise, and forms a fitting conclusion to theRepertorium Columbianum.458p, Repertorium Columbianum 13 (Brepols, 2004)Hardback. 9782503521923. $110.00.Reduced to $60.00Italian Reports on America, 1493-1522:Accounts by Contemporary Observersedited by G Symcox and L FormsianoThis volume brings together 21 contemporarydescriptions of the Americas, written by a varietyof Italian observers in the generation followingColumbus’ first voyage. The authors range fromdiarists recording noteworthy events to merchantsrelating items of news they had heard from theircommercial contacts, to the reflections of prelates,government officials and scholars. Among theseaccounts an early version of the humanist PeterMartyr’s account of America, pirated by a Venetiandiplomat, Angelo Trevisan, figures prominently,along with Michaela de Cuneo’s vivid memoirof Columbus’ second voyage. These documentsillustrate the European reaction to the undreamedof social, political and natural world revealed bythe Columban voyages and the wonder, curiosityand frequent misapprehension that this exotic newreality provoked. This volume forms a companionto Italian Reports on America, 1493-1522: Letters,Dispatches and Papal Bulls292p (Repertorium Columbianum 12, Brepols 2002)Hardback. 9782503514031.$103.00.Reduced to$50.00Las Casas of Columbus:The Third Voyageby J.M. Carillo CastilloThis edition and translation of Las Casas’s narrative,transmitted in his Historia de las Indias, ofColumbus’s third voyage in 1498-1500 to Trinidadand the Gulf of Paria, then on to Hispaniola,completes the coverage of the Columbian voyagescontained in volumes 6 and 7 of the RepertoriumColumbianum. The narrative opens on a highnote with the first European sighting of themainland of South America, Columbus’s lyricalresponse to the beauty of its abundant flora andfauna, friendly encounters with the Indiansof Paria, and intimations that the expeditionmight have stumbled onto the threshold of theearthly paradise. It closes, however, in a sombervein with what Las Casas aptly termed the ‘fall’of the admiral, who had been ousted from hisgovernorship for mismanagement of the youngcolony and shipped home ignominiously to face anuncertain reception at the court of Fernando andIsabel. Las Casas’s commentary is largely centeredon moral and political issues, particularly on thecontradictory implications of Columbus’s actions:on the one hand as the explorer who opened upa new world for Christian evangelization, andon the other as the viceroy whose brutal andineffective administration of this new worldproved so disastrous for its indigenous inhabitants.The former he judges positively and the latternegatively, never mincing his words. Indeed, thisfascinating text can be read as a dialogue betweenLas Casas and Columbus in which Las Casasconstantly quotes the admiral’s letters and thenglosses them with his own observations, guided bymoral and eschatological themes.334p, 4 illus (Brepols 2001) Hardback.9782503511818. $103.00.Reduced to $50.00Italian Reports on America 1493-1520:Letters, Dispatches and Papal Bullsedited by G. Smycox, G. Rabitti & P.D. DiehlIn a volume which opens with reports of informationcontained in the famous ‘Santangel letter’ and closeswith the announcements of Cortes’s conquests inMexico and Magellan’s circumnavigation, historianGeoffrey Symcox presents in chronological order acollection of originaltexts, accompanied by Englishtranslations, detailing the reactions of Italiandiplomats, merchants, and the papacy to the news ofColumbus’s explorations in America and subsequentevents down to the conquest of Mexico. Thesedocuments form part of the process by which the newsof the lands and people of the Americas spread to thecourts, chanceries, and educated public of the Italianstates and reveal that news of the Americas - their floraand fauna, their exotic inhabitants, their fabled wealth- spread swiftly to a public hungry for information.But the collection also suggests that at least until themid-sixteenth century the achievements of Columbusand his successors remained of secondary concernto statesmen and citizens seeking to survive as theirstronger neighbours fought for hegemony in the Italianpeninsula and in the Mediterranean.xiv + 162p (Brepols 2001) Hardback. 9782503511801.$110.00. Reduced to $60.00The David Brown Book Co. www.oxbowbooks.com — toll-free 1-800-791-9354
When ordering, please quote the reference number 344 - 09Discovery & ExplorationOviedo on Columbusby J.M. Carrillo CastilloFor Bartolome de Las Casas, Columbus was the agentof God in a benign mission of evangelization but endedhis career as a perpetrator of injustice against theindigenous peoples of the Antilles. A contrary image ofColumbus as both the initiator of a new scientific eraand agent of imperial expansion was first suggestedby the author of the writings collected in this volume,Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo. Oviedo was a naturalhistorian who Humboldt states was the first to attempta systematic description of the flora and fauna of theAmericas. But he was also a tireless champion of theSpanish conquest and occupation of the Americas.Oviedo’s work is certainly, as Jes Carrillo demonstrates,one of the earliest in which the objectives of science andempire are yoked together in a way which later becamea feature of botanical, zoological and anthropologicalwriting.256p, Brepols 2001) Hardback. 9782503510309.$81.00. Reduced to $40.00Testimonies fromthe Columbian Lawsuitsedited by W. D. Phillips Jr.The story of the first stage of Europe’s expansion inotthe Americas usually focuses on the personal actionsof Christopher Columbus. Nevertheless, the enterpriseof the Indies was a collective endeavour. BetweenColumbus’s first voyage in 1492 and 1504 when hereturned to Spain for the last time, thousands hadsailed from Spain to the Americas. Their voices havelargely been forgotten, but they have not been lost. Thetestimony those witnesses made, duly recorded andpreserved, is the focus of this volume. The material hasbeen available in the Spanish archives since the sixteenthcentury. Some historians used it in the nineteenth andtwentieth centuries, and begining in the 1960s a group ofSpanish scholars led by Antonio Muro Orejon publisheda definitive Spanish-language version. That is the basisof this edition, the first and only English-langaugeversion available. The dispositions of the individualwitnesses provide evidence that the traditional pictureof Columbus needs re-examination. This volume offersfascinating and unfamiliar information about the firstvoyages.xii + 494p (Brepols 1999) Hardback. 9782503510293.$110.00. Reduced to $60.00Las Casas on Columbus:Background and the 2nd and 4th Voyagesedited by N. GriffinBartolomé de Las Casas is certainly the most controversialfigure in the long and troubled history of Spain’soverseas empire. The fierce ‘defender and apostle tothe Indians’, as he become known, Las Casas dedicatedmost of his adult life to describing the atrocities whichthe Spaniards had perpetrated against the indigenousinhabitants of the Americas. He was also, however,the man who perhaps did most to chronicle the life ofthe ‘discover’ of America, Christopher Columbus. ForLas Casas, Columbus was the key figure in Las Casas’sown prolonged conception of the Spanish presence inAmerica and his interpretation of what had taken placethere since 1492. This volume of the RepertoriumColumbianum presents Las Casas’s accounts, drawnmainly from the Historia de las Indias, of the eventswhich preceded Columbus’s first voyage and whichoccurred during his second and fourth voyages. Thus,it complements volume 6, A Synoptic Edition of the Logof Columbus’s First Voyage, which contains Las Casas’sdescription of the first voyage. Nigel Griffin’s entirelynew transcription of the original material is accompaniedby this graceful and accurate English translation of thetext, which for the most part has not been previouslytranslated. The well-known Lascasian scholar AnthonyPagden introduces the volume, carefully placing LasCasas’s account of the deeds of Christopher Columbuswithin the context of his entire life’s work.xii + 494p (Brepols 1999) Hardback. 9782503508832.$110.00. Reduced to $60.00A Synoptic Edition of the Log ofColumbus’s First Voyageedited by F. Lardicci and V. Bertolucci PizzorussoThe single most crucial document for Columbianscholarship is Christopher Columbus’s log, or dayby-dayaccount, of his first voyage to the New World.The original document has not survived, but threetexts transmit versions of the log: a unique manuscriptsummary of Columbus’s account, written in the hand ofBartolomé de Las Casas; chapters 15-41 of the Historieattributed to Fernando Colón and translated into Italianby Alfonso de Ulloa; and the reports of Columbus’sfirst voyage contained in book 1, chapters 35-75 of LasCasas’s Historia de las Indias. Now, for the first time,Columbian scholars have access to the three texts in asingle volume presented in a form which allows detailedcomparisons among them. Using Las Casas’s summaryof the original log as the text of reference, Dr Lardiccihas carefully identified in the other two texts, using asimple system of numbering, corresponding passages,expansions of the reference text, and completely newmaterial.In addition, this entirely unprecedented synopticedition contains new scholarly editions of the three textsaccompanied by new English translations. Dr Lardicciintroduces her work with a detailed and fascinatingstudy of the histories of the three texts, their individualcharacteristics, and the relationships among them.Useful commentary on unusual terminology and anew edition and transation of the notations, or postils,found in the margins of Las Casas’s summary account,complete this fascinating volumexiv + 684p (Brepols 1999) Hardback. 9782503508733.$145.00. Reduced to $80.00Selections from Peter Martyrby Anghiera, edited by G. EatoughThe first decade, or volume, of Peter Martyr’s reports onthe New World, published in 1511 as De Orbe Novo, wasin fact the first European history of America. For twentyyears after Columbus’s voyages of discovery, Martyr’sletters; in various versions, served as Europe’s primaryprinted source for the Caribbean and the emergingcontinent of South America. Martyr, a wise observer andgreat storyteller, is one of the major informants on thevoyages of Columbus. His work also includes the wholeof the first decade of the De Orbe Novo and the fourthbook of Martyr’s third decade, which tells of Columbus’svoyage to Panama. A new and accurate translationparallels the Latin text, while Eatough’s extensivecommentary contributes significantly to the remarkablydetailed, complex and varied series of narratives.xiv + 544p (Brepols 1998) Hardback. 9782503507903.$110.00. Reduced to $60.00Christopher Columbusand his Family:The Genoese and Ligurian Documentsby J.E. Dotson, edited by A. AgostoAny analysis of the background and youth ofChristopher Columbus is necessarily based on thedocuments gathered in this volume, which includes allthe known records relating to Columbus and his familyin Liguria. All these documents, covering the centuryfrom 1429 to 1531, are preserved in Genoese and otherLigurian archives; more than a third of them have cometo light since the 1896 Raccolta Colombiana. Most arenotarial instruments that record the family’s businessand real estate transactions, wills, and so forth. A few aretaken from the financial records of the city, and severalmore record the settlement of various conflicts, mostlyinvolving business disputes. The colourful exceptioninvolves Christopher Columbus’s cousin GiovanniColombo, who was accused in the death of a fellowworker. Whatever their precise form, these are all officialdocuments. Even the autograph letters of ChristopherColumbus were not written to individuals but to officialsof the Bank of San Giorgio in Genoa. Here are the day-todayactivities of five generations of a family that - exceptfor the man who made the name ‘Columbus’ famous -was entirely ordinary. The appearance in English of thismaterial is of great importance to those interested in theexplorer and the economic, social and cultural context ofhis life. ‘Dotson has done an extraordinary job of puttingthese 188 documents into a readable English that fullyconveys the meaning of the originals.... Simply reading[them] is a marvelous introduction to the daily life ofmen and women in the fifteenth and early sixteenthcenturies.’ - Steven A. Epstein, author of Genoa and theGenoese, 958-1528.xii+ 452p (Brepols 1998) Hardback. 9782503507408.$110.00. Reduced to $60.00Christopher Columbus, engraving by Johann TheodorDe Bry (Théodore de Bry), 16th century.The David Brown Book Co. www.oxbowbooks.com — toll-free 1-800-791-9354
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