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Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida, Volume 1.

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Date Issued:
1905
Abstract/Description:
As told by a Knight of Elvas and in Relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma, Factor of the expedition. Translated by Buckingham Smith together with an account of De Soto's Expedition. Based on the diary of Rodrigo Ranjel, his private secretary. Translated from Oviedo's Historia General y Natural de las Indias. Edited with an introduction by Edward Gaylord Bourne, professor of History in Yale University. Illustrated. Volume 1. The Bradford club -- Life of Soto -- Proem -- True relation of the vicissitudes that attended the governor Don Hernando de Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the discovery of the province of Florida / now just given by a fidalgo of Elvas. Index of the chapters contained in the Discovery of Florida (p. 1-210) -- Annotations / made by the translator to matters in the Relac¸am (p. [211]-228) -- Relation of the conquest of Florida / presented by Luys Hernandez de Biedma in the year 1544 to the King of Spain in council ; translated from the original document (p. [229]-261) -- Appendix. Translations [of letters, official documents and royal decrees] (p. [263]-312) -- Index (p. [313]-324).
Title: Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida, Volume 1.
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Name(s): Knight of Elvas
Hernández de Biedma, Luys
Type of Resource: text
Genre: E-book
Date Issued: 1905
Publisher: David Nutt
Place of Publication: London, England
Physical Form: online resource
Extent: 223 p.
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: As told by a Knight of Elvas and in Relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma, Factor of the expedition. Translated by Buckingham Smith together with an account of De Soto's Expedition. Based on the diary of Rodrigo Ranjel, his private secretary. Translated from Oviedo's Historia General y Natural de las Indias. Edited with an introduction by Edward Gaylord Bourne, professor of History in Yale University. Illustrated. Volume 1. The Bradford club -- Life of Soto -- Proem -- True relation of the vicissitudes that attended the governor Don Hernando de Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the discovery of the province of Florida / now just given by a fidalgo of Elvas. Index of the chapters contained in the Discovery of Florida (p. 1-210) -- Annotations / made by the translator to matters in the Relac¸am (p. [211]-228) -- Relation of the conquest of Florida / presented by Luys Hernandez de Biedma in the year 1544 to the King of Spain in council ; translated from the original document (p. [229]-261) -- Appendix. Translations [of letters, official documents and royal decrees] (p. [263]-312) -- Index (p. [313]-324).
Identifier: FA00000369 (IID)
Subject(s): Soto, Hernando de, -- approximately 1500-1542
Indians of North America -- Florida
Florida -- History -- To 1565
European Discovery and Settlement in Florida, 1492-1821 -- Explorers and Travelers, 1492-1700
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000369
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Host Institution: FAU

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